Monday, May 19, 2008

Imagination

What if your imagination and reality could match? Is that even possible? I think that it is! We can do anything that we can dream about and more!

And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Ephesians 3:19-21
I love the words extravagant dimensions! We do not know or understand, we cannot picture how big the love of God is for us! I think that living a full life is being able to experience the fullness of God! God can do anything! God does this by working within us. God does not push us around and make us use our imagination, God does it from within us with gentle love and care. Can you picture what would be included in "anything" for you? Can you hear what is calling out to you when it is said that God can do "anything?" What feelings rise up in you when you hear that God can do "anything?" I love the following poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
What if you slept?
And what if,
In your sleep you dreamed?
And what it, in your dream,
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
You had the flower in your hand?
What if your dreams, your imagination, God's "anything" became reality? What if? I think it is possible.
Namaste'

No comments: