{"id":272,"date":"2023-02-15T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkwell.series5technology.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:17:39","slug":"imagination-and-alabasters-ink-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/imagination-and-alabasters-ink-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination &#038; Alabaster&#8217;s Ink Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alabaster\u2019s Ink Well dwells in the lift of beauty, imagination, and truth.&nbsp; Today\u2019s focus is imagination. Author and essayist E.B. White declared \u201cBut real life is only one kind of life-there is also the life of the imagination.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\" id=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagination is \u201cthe faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.\u201d&nbsp; Synonyms are \u201cimaginative faculty, creative power, fancy, interest, fascination, attention, passion, curiosity, preoccupation.\u201d <a href=\"#_edn2\" id=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagination is a gift to birth arts into the broken world that bring life, lift, and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists with a redeemed nature can let the Holy Spirit guide and empower their work to glorify the Creator.&nbsp; The fallen imagination apart from God can lead to heinous goals and death instead of uplift. But artists of all perspectives can mine their imaginations and create expressions that are more expansive, more beautiful, that hint more of the unseen and eternal than they realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagination and play are closely related.&nbsp; They help us look forward to the time when we are not time bound and fully restored to the life God intends for us where we will experience glory our rational minds cannot grasp.<a href=\"#_edn3\" id=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Poet Lucy Shaw wrote \u201cIt came to me, recently, that faith is a \u2018certain widening of the imagination.\u201d&nbsp; When Mary asked the Angel, \u2018How shall these things be?\u2019 She was asking God to widen her imagination. All my life I have been requesting the same thing\u2014a baptized imagination that has a wide enough faith to see the numinous in the ordinary.&nbsp; Without discarding reason, or analysis, I seek from my Muse, the Holy Spirit, images that will open up reality and pull me in to its center. This is the benison of the sacramental view of life.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn4\" id=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear God, <em>&nbsp;<\/em>Please baptize our imaginations so we can see you at work around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" id=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> E.B. White as quoted in Michael Sims the Story of charlotte\u2019s Web (New York: Walker, 2011), Introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\" id=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> Oxford Dictionaries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/us\">http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/us<\/a>&nbsp; by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\" id=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> Moltmon, Jurgen, <em>The Theology of Play<\/em> (New York: Harper, 1972). 12-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref4\" id=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a> Lucy Shaw, Winter Song, (Vancouver:Regent College, 2003), 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabaster\u2019s Ink Well dwells in the lift of beauty, imagination, and truth.&nbsp; Today\u2019s focus is imagination. Author and essayist E.B. White declared \u201cBut real life is only one kind of life-there is also the life of the imagination.\u201d[i] Imagination is \u201cthe faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alabastersinkwell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}