Periodically life gets packed in, pressed down and stale.  One of the things that can help us when things get like this is to do something creative. First, this change of pace often is the very ticket to release a new level of enthusiasm for life.  Second, by creating something, we are using part of our God given abilities to make a change in the status quo.  And last, when we are done we have something in and around our lives that didn't exist before, and we all have a need for something new from time to time to come into our lives.  

We don't have to be an artist or a musician or a writer or a dancer to do something creative.  We all have creativity, God given, because we are created in His image and He is creative.  So it is just a matter of finding something to do that is part of a creative process.  I am reluctant to give examples of what this could be because part of creativity is to explore the possibilities that surround our lives to do something new for the first time.  So lets use our own imagination.  

Why does being creative and doing something creative help loosen us up to enjoy the life God has given us?  I think it is because we enter into one of the things God has designed us to do: to bring forth, be fruitful and establish good things.  Somehow, we find as the creative juices flow in one area of our lives, they begin to renew us in other parts of our lives.  The zest and vigor of our lives are renewed.  Life takes on a different aspect of hopeful expectation.  

Matthew 12:35   A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things...