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1 Corinthians 2:9

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
    nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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Garden of Eden II

Garden of Eden II. A clarifying thought occurred to me about how I can imagine the Garden of Eden in perfection. Basically, it tentatively incorporates some later verses wherein God uses nature as an object lesson.

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Reach Others

“[A]ppealing to the imagination is a way we can reach others” (p. 18, Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind).
I’m just going to rip that line out of a paragraph so we can digest that a little bit. It seems to me that there are two big parts to this thought: a) we can reach others, and b) we can appeal to imagination in order to do so. Suddenly, imagination is a tool in our hands, and a connective one at that.

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Another Imagination Book

I found another imagination book! The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing looks very interesting. It is a collection of essays, edited by Leland Ryken, that covers a wide variety of material.

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We cannot help but use our imaginations

Long overdue, I’ve started reading Imagination Redeemed by Gene Veith. Now that I’m homeschooling three kiddos, with three younger underfoot, -desk, and -sight, I suspect this will take awhile! But I hope you can be encouraged to write while I blog little bits of it here and there. To begin with, let us consider this thought: “We cannot help but use our imaginations” (p. 15).

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Imagination

I was talking with someone the other day who suggested an interesting thought. “The problem with modern art,” he surmised, “is that it lacks story. There isn’t anything for your imagination to work with.” I’d like to skip over art philosophy to consider the imagination. What is its real fodder? How do I understand or approach it?  Continue reading

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