I have on my bookshelf several writing-to-inspire books. I refer to them occasionally for encouragement.
- If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
- A Writer’s Paris by Eric Maisel
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
- Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke
- Unless It Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt
- Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
In the same vein, I have read The Creative Call: An Artist’s Response to the Way of the Spirit by Janice Elsheimer. She teaches about the Greek word pneuma and the Hebrew equivalent word rûach (both share the same meanings in Strong’s Concordance #4151). Both refer to God’s breath or His wind as the creative empowerment that inspires us to create.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 is the story of God raising up an army from a valley of very dry bones, so dry that they had no life force left in them. The Lord God told Ezekiel to prophesy over the dry bones, and “So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.”
Sometimes I do have divinely sent ideas for blog posts and writing projects, and sometimes I sit in front of my blank laptop screen, racking my head for ideas (like today). But that is the essence of co-creation with God. We do our part and He does His.