Imagination (the real post)

This is the post that was going to go with the picture below, but to type all this with my little blackberry buttons would get rather uncomfortable. So here's the real post.

When I was thinking of a title for this blog, I used my favorite tool of vocabulary expansion to try and find some great, meaningful substitution for the word "creativity". After reading through all the other wonderful synonyms - cleverness, genius, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness, originality, resourcefulness, talent, vision. - I realized that the word I wanted was "imagination".

Here is why.

Imagination is really what makes the world turn. It is our imaginations that take the fluid, broken thoughts in our minds, and make them shareable, meaningful words or actions. Faith is a wonderful thing but it is our imaginations that are able to bring faith into action. I believe this is why Jesus said the only way to enter the Kingdom of Heaven is like a child. You see a child lives in their imagination. I child can be anything they want to be, because they have not learned yet that they can't. As we grow we are "learned" out of our imaginations. It is the same way with faith. We used to believe that if someone did not have an arm or a leg, God could give them a new one. Then we met someone without an arm or leg and we "learned" to put our faith in a box. So I think we should all come to that place of being "born again" (maybe for a 4th or 5th time) so that our imaginations can shape our actions, and not let our imaginations be shaped by what we already know, or think we know.