{"id":614,"date":"2009-08-26T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-08-26T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T03:04:13","slug":"imagine-august-26-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/imagine-august-26-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine, August 26 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jake

Jake playing make believe with a toy boat in water<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0I love to watch my children play pretend, when they don’t know I am watching.\u00a0 It is especially entertaining when they are talking out loud in another character’s voice.\u00a0 My friend and I\u00a0 were talking about how when you have kids there is no need for entertainment.\u00a0 Just put them in a room and watch them play. They say and do the cutest things of course depending on the age.\u00a0 One of the best ages to watch them play pretend I think is from about 3 – 7.\u00a0 My children’s imagination floors me sometimes and other times it makes me remember how I played as a kid.\u00a0 I was raised with 2 brothers and a sister all older than me and I vividly remember playing shark in the basement.\u00a0 We could not touch the carpet or the sharks in the ocean would eat us.\u00a0 So we ran around on the furniture, of course.\u00a0 My children play the same game and they have never even seen the movie Jaws.<\/p>\n

Imagination is a wonderful gift that God has given to each one of us.\u00a0 It seems that in our world as adults we are not suppose to use it very often.\u00a0 When you are growing a little “too old” to play pretend you are told that by parents or teachers.\u00a0\u00a0Are we ever too old to get our head out of the clouds really?\u00a0 I truly believe our imagination was given to us by God so why should we cease to use it as we age.\u00a0 Of course we can’t do it as much as when we were children, we don’t have the time.\u00a0 We have to work, raise a family, pay the bills, do all the things parents have to get done.\u00a0 When or why would we ever use our imagination?\u00a0 It doesn’t fit in with thinking realistically about our future and our needs!\u00a0 Maybe that is part of what’s missing from adulthood, you know what is actually lacking.\u00a0 As adults many of us long for the days of carefree play, lack of responsibilities and stress that weighs us down daily.\u00a0 That’s why vacations are so good, you get to retreat from everyday life wind down and relax.\u00a0 But we can’t go on vacation daily can we?\u00a0 Some of us don’t even get to do it yearly.<\/p>\n

Maybe just maybe, we as adults especially parents should use our imaginations more often.\u00a0 How often do you play shark with the kids?\u00a0 Our kids love to play monster and it is a good excuse to just run around the basement tickling our kids and making them laugh uncontrollably.\u00a0 It is fun to use our imagination like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aren’t we using our imagination when we dream of a future\u00a0 goal being met? Like retiring and traveling with your spouse.\u00a0 Like picturing your children grown and having grand kids.\u00a0 Those are wonderful pictures in our minds that we create and imagine, so I guess we are not too old to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

John Lennon sang it in one of the most wonderful songs ever, Imagine. The following is a line from it:<\/p>\n

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, sharing all the world, You may say that I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe just maybe, our imagination was given to us by God not just to enjoy life as a child.\u00a0 Maybe it was to imagine how much better our world can be.\u00a0 To be able to dream outside of our little box and to see\u00a0what God wants us to be in this life.\u00a0 Maybe just maybe, our imagination was given to us by God to be able to connect more clearly with His image of how our existence should be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So try it today.\u00a0 Find a quiet place and clear your mind.\u00a0 Then let your mind wonder to wherever God wants it to go and imagine. Imagine\u00a0an existence living within the love of God where all your needs are met, life is not a struggle and you and your loved ones live in complete happiness and never ending warmth of God’s embrace, that’s how I personally IMAGINE Heaven. Then give yourself permission to use your imagination as an adult for good, for\u00a0 all that God has given you is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0I love to watch my children play pretend, when they don’t know I am watching.\u00a0 It is especially entertaining when they are talking out loud in another character’s voice.\u00a0 My friend and I\u00a0 were talking about how when you have kids there is no need for entertainment.\u00a0 Just put them in a room and watch them play. They say and do the cutest things of course depending on the age.\u00a0 One of the best ages to watch them play pretend I think is from about 3 – 7.\u00a0 My children’s imagination floors me sometimes and other times it makes me <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[163,161,53,64,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}