“I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
The most essential thing is to see your divine destiny.
As a parent you have the opportunity to show your child how to be a creator. However he or she must understand that they are the most important creation of all your masterpieces. Without this as a foundation, you will produce beautiful art, but some how it will feel empty.
Over the past 21 years these are the core steps I have found as a parenting artist.
Here are the 7 Steps to Parenting and Painting.
How to parent and paint
- Know what is most important to you. You must be at the center of the wheel of your life. Or all will spin into chaos. You must know what you stand for and plant yourself in this place of truth.
- Understand that you are a creator. When you create daily, you honor yourself and your family. This is vital to understand what you are and to teach this through your example to your children.
- Know the purpose of your daily creation. The creation of your life as a work of art and your art as a product of your true life/living.
- Strive forward each day, taking the next best step even when life’s tasks seem like an insurmountable Everest. You have with in you the ability to break up all tasks into bite sized pieces and conquer.
- Take the time to see your life, your creation in all it’s parts. Family, home, finance, responsibilities, self care, and art. See lack, skills, needs, and desires. Clarify all aspects in your mind and on paper.
- As you identify these parts pray about the most essential tasks for each area.
Pray and do the next best step with gratitude and love for your work and abilities. - Choose to be at peace. We cannot control all, but we can select our emotions and beliefs, if we are conscious.
These steps work for all forms of creation. You may be hoping to finish your first masterpiece, or your MBA. Both are creations. Any achievement can be approached as a work of art and executed in the style of the creator. Are you a Michelangelo or a Picasso? Or perhaps you are an Einstein or Hawking?
It doesn’t matter what you excel at as long as you teach your child what it means to be the creator of their own life.