Category: imagination

Imagination: Creative Ability

 
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.”
And it was so. 
(Genesis 1:14-15 ESV)
 
 
“Can you celebrate the unknown expanse of God’s imagination?”
(Rachel G. Hackenberg)
 
 
 
As I contemplated the above question, and the truth that everything belongs to God, two poem prayers flowed from my pen.
 
 
celebrate
 
 
stories untold
parables unfold
 
worlds above
kingdoms below
 
horizons expand
frontiers to explore
(borders, boundaries and limits)
 
transport us to lands unknown
 
 
 
 
everything belongs to God
 
the universe
the imagination
the narrative
the explanation
 
the soul
the seed
the expanse
the ground
 
the mind
the soil
the thoughts
the ideas (the toil)
 
the body
the fruit
the womb
the child
 
the strength
the growth
this miracle
called life

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More: A Greater Quantity, Number or Amount

Monday Musings

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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:19-20 NIV


Last week, I was sitting in my chair staring into space. I must admit, I was having a silent pity party. Lamenting over disappointments and discouragements, basically despairing because I didn’t think God was listening or answering or even noticing how things have been going here on earth lately. I was entertaining hopelessness. Just at that moment, I looked up at the wall across the room. On this wall is a plaque with words.

About halfway down the list of exhortations on the wall hanging, one phrase states: “Hope more.”
 
 

 I laughed nervously to myself, and then confessed to God that I really haven’t been hoping much at all. My faith falters, my life languishes and I am plain weary of waiting for something new or good to happen.

After that little tirade, the phone rang and it was my mom with some hopeful ideas for a trying situation. The directive to hope more, bubbled up inside. Maybe God was listening after all. Maybe He does really care. And what He really cares about more than my happiness or the right answer is that I know and believe and trust His love.

May this day bring you a greater awareness of God’s hope and more grace than you can imagine.

 

 
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