Who decides what’s real?
In the past, there has been a part of me that fears that someone will figure out that I’m a fraud. That I’m not a real musician because I have no training. That I’m not a real chef because I didn’t go to Culinary Art Schools. That I’m not a real Life Coach because I have no certification. That I’m not a real artist because I paint from my photography.
But who decides what’s real? Do I feel like a real artist when I’m singing? YES!! I feel it so deep within my heart that it swells with emotion. Do I feel like a real artist when I’m cooking? YES!! I feel deliciously excited and passionate. Do I feel like I’m a real artist when I life coaching? YES!! I feel that Divine Wisdom & Inspiration flowing through me like a masterpiece. Do I feel like a real artist when I’m taking photos and painting them into my own expression? YES!! YES!! YES!! I feel like I see and express things in a way that only I can. I feel my love and unique expression pouring out onto the canvas. I feel joy!
Authenticity comes from a place of alignment with who I really am. Everything that I do and create is authentic when it is created from alignment. Art starts within as an urge from Source to create and everything we create is art. It is especially amazing art when we pour our natural love into it. And I look at what I created and say, “Look at THAT! That is pure love. How could it not be authentic?”
I Am the creator of everything that shows up in my life and everything that I see I created from love. As I look at the sun’s rays shooting through the clouds, like beams of pure blessing, injecting themselves directly into that which they shine upon, I realize that I created that. That is authenticity at it’s best and I am the artist of it, that Divine Genius who creates miracles. I am surrounded by an ever-changing painting of miracles and expressions.
The finished painting is never the real art. The love that poured out of me in the making of it is the REAL art. And that’s what makes me a True Artist in all that I do.
