The Creativity Companion – 6 Gentle Devotions for When You Feel Stuck or Spent (Free Digital Devotional PDF)

Pairs with our Soft Talk series The Creativity Companion on YouTube.

Feeling stuck, tired, or quietly burned out in your creative life can make you wonder if you’ve simply run out of ideas—or out of whatever it was that once made you feel alive when you created.

The Creativity Companion is a gentle six-day devotional for weary creatives who still feel a small ache to make something beautiful with God, but don’t have the energy to push or perform anymore.

The Creativity Companion is a gentle devotional for the days when:

• You feel blocked, uninspired, or like your ideas have gone quiet

• Creating feels more like pressure and performance than joy

• You wonder if your work still matters or if you’ve missed your “moment”

• You feel distant from God in the very place you once felt closest—your creativity

Through short readings built around six simple images—The Spark, Catching the Wind, It Flows Like a River, The Ache to Create, The Art of Attention, and Borrowed Light—this devotional helps you:

• Release perfectionism and remember that creativity is a gift, not a test

• See your creative work as a place of prayer and communion with God, not just output

• Make peace with the ache to create instead of shaming yourself for it

• Take small, honest steps back toward rest, curiosity, and joy in your art

What’s included:

• 1 printable devotional (PDF)

• 6 short daily readings (about 5–7 minutes each)

• Scripture-centered encouragement and gentle reflection prompts

• Space to pause, notice, and respond in your own journal or sketchbook

• For personal use (you may reprint for your own use as often as you’d like)

This free devotional is part of the Ivory Road Resources collection—created to help you meet God’s presence right in the middle of your creative fatigue and questions, not after you’ve “gotten your spark back.”