All people have a trick up their sleeve, behind their awareness; a field of the mind upon which ideas are drawn, pictures arise, connections are made, and worlds are woven. Our species capacity for imagination has been rendered many ways; mere fancy or the ground of perception, but for all its mysteries it remains one of the human animals defining qualities, a kind of everyday magic afforded to everyone, a skill we can sharpen, a muscle we can flex, a force we can leverage to affect the self and the world.
This Sunday, let us consider our theme of imagination as both a psychological phenomenon, a spiritual grounding, and a moral force within each of us. How may we leverage imagination to enrich our lives, to nurture our communities, and to change the world?
Topics: Imagination