Imagine
POSTED AT 10:25 AM in Thoughts

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Is imagination really without limit?

 

All imagination is limited. Our experience informs what we imagine. We build on the already existing framework that we have developed as we grow up and as we observe the world and learn. For example, take a story writer. He or she will draw from experiences they have had in the past or the knowledge they have of human nature. Even science fiction is imagination of what could be based on what we already have.

 

The potential aliens is based on the knowledge that we have life and our planet is one of the many others and it is not impossible that life could exist elsewhere. Imagination is either denying what is or extending what is, but is sure enough based on what is.

 

Imagination is good. They help us keep pushing our margins. All the things that are possibilities today was only imagination sometime ago. In other words, we become what we imagine. Or we only imagine what we can. So in a sense, we imagine only the possibilities and not the impossibilities really.

 

What is beyond our imagination is something that is also beyond our abilities. But nothing is impossible for God. It intrigues me. No eye has seen, no ear has heard and mind can conceive what God has in store for them that believe. In a sense you are called to believe for something that you can't even imagine!

 

We don’t know but we keep striving to know the unknown. As we cross each boundary of imagination, a new boundary keeps coming up. That would have been something unimaginable before we crossed the previous boundary. But then, there may be things that is simply beyond imagination. And we just need to trust that it will be so and accept it when it is given. We have to keep an open mind to accept it when it comes and not try to fit it in our frame of reference.

Reading: Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray