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The Painful Beauty of Creativity

The musician, poet, songwriter Leonard Cohen used the following image for the creative process of writing (for teachers, artists, preachers, etc.):

[The creative process is] like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

Possible Preaching Angles: 1)Teachers; Pastors; All who teach and preach Scripture know the labor of studying the Word and the delight of discovering its sweetness to present it to others; 2) Arts; Creativity; Vision; The creative process can be a fire in the bones that combines agony with a drive to complete the vision.

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