“Both imagination and wonder can be nurtured…by exposure to the great and the beautiful in any form.”
As 2022 ends, I am grateful for all those who visited Living Stones Unearthed, engaged the posts, left comments, and shared our Facebook page. I especially want to thank those that contributed content. With the changing of the year, I consider 2023 to be a continuation of a story, not an end.
When formulating and considering Living Stones Unearthed, I was influenced and inspired by many from my past and present who took the unsafe and risky steps to bring imagined possibilities to life. I was further inspired by art, music, stories, and lives that captured and translated Gods character, creation, and movements in the present.
In his essay titled The Miracle of Imagination, Christopher Nelson, writes, “the art that frees us from the shackles of our pasts, our times, our places, our familiar opinions, our inherited prejudices, and the conventions of our day, the art that gives us the freedom to think about the world of possibilities – is the Art of Imagination.” And further, “Both imagination and wonder can be nurtured…by exposure to the great and the beautiful in any form.”
Through this journey, I have rediscovered that God created, lives in and communicates through our imagination and that when we engage Him, we are exposed to the “great and beautiful.” In His presence the lens by which I see, and live is adjusted and framed. Colors are brighter, sound clearer, feelings intensified.
This reality is available to everyone.
Ephesians 3:20 says:
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,”
As we approach 2023, what would life look like if it were “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine?”
What would life look like for you?
More now, more to come.
Thank you all for such a wonderful year.
Nice post.
Thanks.