A Generous World

What do you want to share with the world? What is the conversation you most want to have? It can be hard to answer, I know, as what you want to share lives in you mostly as a feeling, a seed of desire planted in your heart so long ago it is easy to forget it is there growing and growing. Everybody wants something whether they acknowledge it or not, but if you’re an artist, then you want to share something with the entire world. Yes, the whole world – every last one of us. Never mind how many you will actually share with, you must allow for everyone, for true sharing does not choose its recipients.

I know you want other things too. I know you want lots of money, maybe, or attention, or approval, or perhaps an award or two. You’re a person, after all, and if you’re like me, you have enjoyed when things are given to you. You have liked the compliments and kisses, the applause and rewards. It’s nice to get, especially when you enjoy what you’ve received, which is also how you know that you are meant to share something with the whole world. Most writers were readers first, readers who thought they would like to do for others what their favorite authors did for them.

This is all true, and yet I know it’s hard to fully comprehend the inherent generosity of creation. I know generosity may not by on your mind while you’re dreaming your story in the privacy of your workroom. You’re busy doing what you like doing. Perhaps you feel the story you tell is given to you or perhaps you feel as though you found it. You certainly don’t feel like you did it all by yourself. You tried that, and it never worked. The only way to tell a story is to discover it, to find or receive it.

Think of that discovery when it comes time to share with the entire world. The story was never yours to keep because it was never wholly yours to begin with. Yes, it grew from a seed in your private heart, but its branches go out and out, never in. Give it away. Let everyone have it now. Share it because you love it, because it surprised and delighted you, because it taught you something, and because you know you are not and cannot be alone as long as you allow yourself to find what you want to share with the entire world.

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