Oct 16, 2011

Imagine That

Have you ever met someone with no imagination? You know, those people who look at you funny if you suggest that the sky would look pretty if it was pink instead of blue. If you ever dare to wonder out loud what tree's would look if they grew upside down they are ready to commit you into a well padded room. I am NOT one of those people. Mostly. I can't imagine what my walls would look like if I painted them blue while I am staring at them. However ask me to think of bubbles replacing raindrops and I will be off in my own little world for hours.

Would bubbles still be so magical if they were in place of rain? How would you get your water? Would you drink bubble juice then? How would it not make you sick? Would drops of water be cool and fascinating? Would sprinkling water on babies make then stop crying (since blowing bubbles is a tried and true way to make any baby and toddler stop crying)? What would the clouds like? Would there be clouds? Would it have to be windy while it bubbled out? To form the bubbles - you know.

See what I mean. I can create a whole world with just that one hypothetical situation. And with the world comes people. With people comes problems. With problems come difficult solutions. And with reaching those solutions comes a story. And that boys and girls is how bubbles can inspire an amazing story.

I have a very vivid imagination - stemming back to childhood. So much so that I have to be uber careful about what I watch and listen too. The simplest thing can have my mind reeling. Cause not only do I have an imagination, I am very visual. Bad combination. Very bad.

I need my imagination though. I can't write stories without it. To me imagination is a gift. Everyone I think has it, in different ways. Some are very imaginative in numbers (not me - but how else do you get these new confusing math equation stuff that they teach in........school). Some (like me) with stories and people. Some people are imaginative parents. Or decorators. So everyone HAS an imagination. Everyone just has different imaginational leanings. And some people just chose not to use theirs (why is beyond me)

Even as a child I had a strong imagination. And it was a muscle I used often. I think if God hadn't given me such a good imagination I wouldn't have been able to imagine anything good in the world (cause I lived in a dark depressive void) and probably would have gone down a very different depressive path that would have ended in self destruction.

I can't remember everything I would imagine as a child, but I knew there was lots. I really did live in my own little world.
I created it.
I controlled it.
I was safe in it.
I do remember, though, pretending I was a Princess instead of a slave, and at night pretending I was in a hospital bed. (That way I had to lay perfectly still and couldn't role over because the IV's would be pulled out. - AKA I got in trouble if I moved around too much on my bed)

As I got older these imaginations became stories. That was grade seven. I recently found stuff I wrote back in the grade 7-9 time period and - immature writing style aside - it was bad. Very bad. Awful. Beyond words. Because really, as my Grade 11 and 12 English teacher would say "Literature is not created within a void." I was a sad a child. Really I was. This reflected in my stories.

But as I changed, and as God changed me - naturally my imagination changed with me. With God in control nothing stays stagnant. Not even an imagination. I still dream. I still imagine. I still can spend an entire day thinking what would happen if rain drops were bubbles. Its actually kind of fun...

And for the record - imagination is Biblical. Proof:
EPHESIANS 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us

God is able to do more then we can imagine!!!!!!!! Which means we actually have to imagine something once in a while. I was thinking about that in church today actually. If God is able to do more then we can ask or imagine - what really could happen? So you imagine the most epic thing you can think off. Example: I want to be an author, and I imagine (think believe whatever) that I can achieve this. God dreams bigger.

But what happens when you've reached God's bigger. So you're beyond what you imagined. Well naturally you imagine more (because it is open to you - and that's the nature of an imagination) God goes beyond that. So now your at the bigger than bigger than you've ever imagined. And you imagine more. God goes beyond that. And so on and so on. God is just so infinite that He will always dream bigger then us.

Imagine that

Hollie

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