My daughter Kasey, who will turn five this July has become completely captivated by a show called Imagination Movers (www.imaginationmovers.com/about/). I have never seen a complete episode of this show, but I do know that there are four guys who are in a band who dress is blue coveralls that encourage their young (and not so young) viewers to use their imagination to assist them in accomplishing their task at hand. Their motto: “Reach high, think big, work hard, have fun!â€
I had never given it much thought before, but do young children need to be encouraged to use their imaginations? With an 8, 4 (almost 5), 2, and 9 month old, I can tell you that the use of imagination is NOT in short supply in the Carlson household. I hear stories of imaginary friends, imaginary situations, and amazing imaginary outcomes.
What happened? Weren’t we at one time those children, children that stood in the glory of all that could be……real or imagined? Maybe it’s not that children need to be encouraged to use their imagination, maybe it’s they just need to be encouraged to never stop using their imagination. Again, it wasn’t that we never used our imagination; it was just somewhere along the way we stopped using it as much as we once did.
But what if our imagination was a big part of understanding God? After all think of all of the times the Bible calls us to use our imagination. We are continually told that God is like……. Or Heaven is like………How many times when asked a question does Jesus tell a story? Why not just answer the question. Why not tell the Pharisees and Scribes the reason he was accepting sinners and tax collectors? Why in the world would he go into this long story about lost sheep, and lost coin and a lost son? Was He not compelling us to use our imagination?
Maybe we are the ones that need the Imagination Movers, to move our imaginations out of the places where we tucked them away and back to the front of our minds where they once were. Join us tomorrow morning as we start our last (two week) series of the year: Imagination Movers.
Imagine how fun it will be
See you in the AM