When I was growing up I would play games where the imagination was better then any toy or movie. Within my imagination I had hundreds of knights at my command, plenty of villains to slay, swords, nun chucks, suits of armor, M16s, lightsabors, space ships, WW2 bombers, and even sometimes birthday cake. When I went on car rides I would use every thing as a button to destroy every car that past by. The seat belt button would arm a missle the door handle a machine gun, the lock on the door would trigger oil slick and the ash tray on the back of the drivers seat was the call box for the artillery (to blow up Honesdale).
Today I had a friend of ours granddaughter hand me a drink coaster and asked if I wanted to try the taco she made. I totally loved it. It was so fun, to jump back in that world. So when I played along and pretended to eat this (taco?) She ended up making me pizza and more tacos. She was all tellin me how it was hard to find the ingredients and asked me what I wanted on it. Of coarse this cup coaster, represented all the tacos and pizzas. It was like the movie "Hook".
I just had to talk about how much I loved using my imagination that way again. It's been awhile since the I let myself do that.
So I'm sorry if you read this expecting to laugh.
The title was funny.
2 comments:
I agree! Imagination is wonderful, and becoming a lost gift as kids let the computerized world imagine, read, think, communicate, and problem solve for them....hope we don't end up with shrimpy heads to hold our shrimpy brains! Keep on dreaming, Joe...say hi to Beth (who was a natural at make-believe when she was little) and Gemma for me.
Imagine if you will...
God says if we can think of it or imagine it then it's not big enough - not God enough...
I don't think we practice nearly often enough!!
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