A-Z of Mystery Journal - I - Imagination

Imagine is one of my favorite words and finds it's way into my journals, by definition and illustration. This time I focused on Imagination. Imagination is the ability to form pictures or ideas in the mind, new and exciting things not experienced before. I love that!Seeing imagination through the filter of my faith helps me appreciate how uniquely made humanity is with our ability to hope for things not yet present, discover the unknown, invent life changing machines etc. It makes me glad to be alive, and fills me with wonder.

"Spiritual epiphanies and human creativity
are both examples of an imagination
tuned in to the Creator's wavelength.
Spirituality is creative; creativity is spiritual.
Imagination provides the venue for both."

~ Brad Jersak, from book Can You Hear Me?

"The power of imagination is the ultimate power, no doubt about that.
While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.
Imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

Albert Einstein

One of my favorite quotes is by Luci Shaw in her book Breath for the Bones

"We are empowered from within our own God-given imaginations
by the first poet, the primal artist, the original composer.
Our own creative spirits, made in the image of another
are boosted and blessed and set on fire
by our union with God in Christ."

Luci Shaw

Imagining is spacious. That is why I picked a space painted paper background to write the quotes on. I've always been fascinated with space, seeing it as God's abstract art. I also love big hair :) Even though I have thin hair, I can imagine having thick beautiful hair, so this page makes me smile, and reminds me to leave room for play when imagining.

"Hope your wildest hopes,
dream your maddest dreams,
imagine your most fantastic fantasies.
Where your hopes and your dreams
and your imagination leave off,
the love of our heavenly Father
only begins."

Brennan Manning

"I pray that the light of God
will illuminate the eyes of your imagination,
flooding you with light, until you experience
the full revelation of the hope of his calling -
that is, the wealth of God's glorious inheritances
that he finds in us, his holy ones."

Ephesians 1:18 TPT

"Our loving Lordis not just present,but nearer than the thought can imagine -so near that a whisper can reach Him."

Amy Carmichael