Creativity is in demand. Creativity doesn’t mean that one is a fine artist, although creativity and art can go together well. Businesses are looking for people who can innovate and who can think along the edges of the box. Real world problems like the gulf coast oil spill, health care, poverty, energy, and a host of others all need fresh perspectives. In the self-help culture there is this notion that you have the power to create your reality. In some religious orientations, we speak of this creativity as free will…we can choose and in so doing create our fate. But as so often is the case with a good idea, we fall into to the trap of thinking that held the Ancient Greeks and Chinese, that the sun and stars revolved around the earth…to believe that the universe revolves around us and our job  is to get as much out of it as we can. To really be creative we need a dose of Copernicus and to recognize our role in the creative process. Our job in being creative is to discern the voice of the Divine and to have the courage to follow this guidance. Sometimes we can get too religious in this in the sense that we talk about God’s will and our will as being entirely separate things and having to sacrifice what we want to follow God. But very often, the best things in life come to us either at a time or in a way that we don’t expect. The sun being at the center means that the earth can orbit and find its warmth and we can enjoy its bounty. The universe doesn’t seem to be stable with a start revolving around a much smaller planet.