Imagination

I am thankful for my imagination. I am convinced that God gave us our imaginations to help us know Him.  I  think about how Paul said that God was able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think( Eph. 3:20).  We can't know God with just our thoughts, He is greater than the sum of them.  How can I fathom a Being that is so different from me? I use my imagination, knowing that He is over and above my day dreaming.  Yet they help me to draw close to Him.  So open your hearts, your dreams and your imagination and join me on my flight of fanciful fiction. 

prologue for 2010

Christmas is coming , and my desire to try and write an advent devotional that fills my needs and desires has awoken.  The dark mornings and the coming holiday fill me with a longing to persue, to understand, to experience what Christmas really is. And for me that is the Christmas Story..the whole story.  Long ago I read Two From Galilee  by Marjorie Holmes( a book I highly recommend) and the story became alive for me. Mary and Joseph were really human beings just like me and they had no idea what was really going on.  I want to try and explore their experience from my perspective, in a highly imaginative way.  Perhaps it will help you to connect to the story and the season .