Why Creating?

The main purpose I'm creating this blog is to serve as my journal.   It will also help me to keep in touch with all of my family and friends who live far away from me now that I have moved to Canada to be with my sweet new husband. 
However, the focus of this blog is documenting my efforts to be a "Creator."  I was inspired by a talk given in October 2008 by Dieter F. Uchtdorf.  It was called, "Happiness, your Heritage."  Here's a snippet:

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.

Everyone can create. You don’t need money, position, or influence in order to create something of substance or beauty.

Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty...

You might say, “I’m not the creative type...

If that is how you feel, think again, and remember that you are spirit daughters of the most creative Being in the universe. Isn’t it remarkable to think that your very spirits are fashioned by an endlessly creative and eternally compassionate God? Think about it—your spirit body is a masterpiece, created with a beauty, function, and capacity beyond imagination...

If you are a mother, you participate with God in His work of creation—not only by providing physical bodies for your children but also by teaching and nurturing them. If you are not a mother now, the creative talents you develop will prepare you for that day, in this life or the next.

You may think you don’t have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us.  The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before—colorful gardens, harmonious homes,family memories, flowing laughter."

So this blog is where I will write about what I am "creating:" a family, a home, a meal, a written piece of work, a song, a church activity.  My hope is that it will help me recognize and expand my own ability to create.  I also hope that everyone that reads it will also be inspired to find their own "inner creator."