Julia and the Land of Make Believe

So, I am working over this idea in my head for a Christmas production (not to be called Julia and the Land of Make Believe) and in doing so have been thinking - more often then normal - about the connection between imagination and faith (written about here).

I think I have a new phrase to use in the place of imagination - make-believe. As so often happens when something new pops into my head I surfed on over to the dictionary to see if what I was thinking lined up with the proper definition of the word (not really proper hermeneutics but not really the Bible either). Here was the definition for make-believe:

Make-believe: pretense, esp. of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham; a pretender; imaginary

Not really my idea of faith, and not really what I wanted the definition to be. So, as so often happens when something new pops into my head, I went and made up my own definition. Taking the word make and the word believe and looking at what they mean gives the desired affect.

Believe: to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

Make: to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring about.

Make-believe is bringing something into reality that had before lived only in your mind. It is producing what you have confidence in. It is faith.

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Hebrews 11:1&3

Julia and the Land of Make Believe is the story of a little girl who stumbles upon a place that she thinks is only in her imagination, but comes to find out that sometimes what is only in our imagination here - is real somewhere else.