“I have no stuff to imagination with”.
My daughter made this declarative statement over a month ago as we were discussing why she wanted to bring her toy kitchen up from the basement and back into her room. Since then those seven words continue to rattle around in my brain.
“I have no stuff to imagination with”.
Everyone has imagination. As kids, imagination may have created friends who stuck by no matter what. For others, imagination is what carried them to far away lands right within the four walls of their home. Imagination is what made stuffed animals talk, turned shoes boxes into treasure chests and countless other ordinary items into the extraordinary.
Imagination doesn’t abandon us when we leave childhood. It’s still a part of us. A gift our Creator God gave us when He created us -an integral part of our creativity. But we can get disconnected from it. Busy schedules, mindless activities, stress, discouragement, illness, notions of how adults should be versus what actually is….all these things and more creep in, pile up and block off access to the creative side of us.
I don’t have all (or even most) the answers to connecting with my creative side. I know my story and am learning how I fit into God’s story and how He is shaping me into the person He meant me to be, imagination and all.
For a beautiful illustration of how creativity, humans and God are connected, read Paul Richardson’s poem Ode to the Fallen. There is a copy of it here.
