if you're feeling uninspired

I wrote this letter to myself awhile back when I was having a hard time finding words to write. I haven't written in a million years, so I'm back in that same place again. Fortunately, I remembered this little gem. Here's to hoping it will kickstart my creativity again.

Dear uninspired me:

Please stop checking facebook.  Please stop picking your split ends.  Pinterest won’t give you any more inspiration than the view out your window.  Just start creating.  You aren’t feeling passionate today?  Create anyway.  You don’t know just exactly what to say?  Create anyway.  You forgot your headphones so you’re sitting at Starbucks being aurally assaulted by coffee orders and weird music that’s not yours?  Create anyway.  The sky’s whitegrey and you haven’t done a single thing today and you’re feeling like a messy lump in a world moving at a slower pace than traffic on Mopac between 5 and 7 p.m.?  Create anyway.  Because that’s what you’re here for.  You create for yourself, yeah, but that’s not all.  You create to glorify the God of the universe because that’s what He made you to do and it pleases Him when you use the gifts and passions that He gave you.  You create to bring a little hope and a flickering light to the world.  You create to bring a little sanity to yourself.  So stop caring about what’s going on around you and what’s going on inside you; stop feeling like a mess because you haven’t been productive today; stop blocking out the artistic murmurings in your brain and your soul and just MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.  Please.  The world needs it.  And you need it even more.