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    Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
    Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
    Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
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    Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life

    By Amy Hollingsworth

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    One passage, two verses, four words.

    As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an "expert" on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream, she soon discovers its contents reflected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the first time creativity's core, its spiritual roots, and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reflection and study, it confirms the very scientific theories she's been teaching all along. In fact, she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago, kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper, she uncovers for the reader God's blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life, through a practical outworking of her spiritual findings. In the end, both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilities--and a profound sense of what's truly holy about holy curiosity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2011
    ISBN9781621892755
    Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
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    Amy Hollingsworth

    Amy Hollingsworth is the author of the best-selling The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers and Gifts of Passage. Before writing books, Amy wrote for various magazines and was a television writer for eight years for CBN. In 2010, she was named one of USA Today’s Top 100 People for her influence on pop culture and was featured in the documentary by MTV’s Benjamin Wagner titled Mister Rogers & Me. Her television appearances include WGN’s Morning News, PBS’s A Word on Words, and Fox’s Morning News. A former psychology professor, Amy lives in Virginia with her husband and children.    

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