Artist Prayer for the Release of Creative Juices

Creator of the Universe, Thank you for making us creative! Thank you for beauty and variety!

I pray for each one here during this creative time, that it will be a fruitful and fun and healing adventure. I invite your Holy Spirit to hover over us, give us light and inspiration.

As we work with our hands, please work in our hearts. Bring together the different pieces of our lives and make something beautiful of them.

If anyone has been discouraged, squashed, hurt, pushed into a wrong mold or held back from engaging in his or her creative gifts, I pray for new freedom. I ask forgiveness on behalf of those who have oppressed or neglected you in any way.

If you’ve picked up lies and “mind noise” associated with creativity — thoughts like:

“I’m not creative,”
“I can’t draw,”
“I don’t have talent,”
“I should be doing something important,”
and [fill in the blank]

I break off those lies right now and release you from the limitations they’ve put on you!

I declare that you have something special inside of you to be expressed, and that this time IS important and vital to life.

I also release you from perfectionism, from habits that keep you in a box, from past disappointments, failures or fears.

I bless you to recieve love and light and to enter into a new level of discovery and wonder as you take time to play. I bless you with courage to take risks, and with spiritual staminal and boldness as you try new things.

May you feel God’s pleasure over you as you engage in creative work now. May the wells be unstopped and fresh ideas and ways of seeing spring up along with your creative juices.

And may you “let it rip” and enjoy yourself in all your creative adventures.

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.

-- Pablo Picasso