I Miss Making Art.

I have a really long post coming later...but I just need to vent for a second. I am 5 and a half weeks away from finishing my first year of college. And while I am REALLY sad about that, there are definitely some things I'm looking forward to. What's on my heart most right now? Art. I cannot wait to have time to be creative and artsy and express all this emotion that has been building up in my heart all year.

I miss painting. I love to paint. I love to put color together and make a blank canvas look pretty. I love being able to fill an empty space with depth and meaning. Yea, I'm not the best painter in the world. But it's still something I really enjoy and love to do when I have time.

I miss writing. Really writing. Putting together good, coherent pieces that actually have a point...a point other than me just venting/writing for the heck of writing (it could be argued that this post is a result of that. Potentially). I want to go deep in my writings and really convey a lesson that I have loved learning/something fun that has happened in my life/something entertaining. You get the point.

I miss dancing. It's been almost a year since I've danced. Like really danced. And my body is yearning for it right now. Psalm 149:3 say, "Let us praise his name with dancing." I miss being able to do that. I especially miss choreographing. I absolutely adore choreographing. This time last year, I was nearing my senior dance recital. One of my best friends and I were working really hard on our senior specialty. I miss spending hours upon hours in that dance studio...just pouring myself into the movement and music and creating something beautiful out of nothing.


You see, I just miss creating. I hate having all this creativity bottled up inside of me with nowhere to put it. The cool thing about creativity is that we are ALL creative. We have been made by the Ultimate Creator, the Master of Creativity. We belong to the One Who Created the Universe. He has allowed us this amazing privilege of participating in the act of creation. He gives us talents and He gives us opportunities to use them. And maybe I miss creating so much because painting and writing and dancing are so much more than just painting and writing and dancing. They are ways to connect to the Lord and bring glory to Him. Whatever form our art may be, it allows us to partake in creation, embracing and rejoicing in the creativity of the Best Artist Ever. I miss making art.