“I became painfully aware that far too often good sense had replaced imagination in my own life.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2014-02-25) from his book, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art (p. 92). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

That is so true for me. I was telling a friend of mine this morning of something that I was dealing with. It was a dream that I had to live in a RV and travel when Margaret retires and I said but it doesn’t make sense because I will be in my seventies. That is what happens when you get old. Your imagination and your dreams give way to making sense.

Erwin continues, “You don’t have to be Einstein to know that imagination is more powerful than knowledge, yet practical, everyday life seems to press us into an imaginationless reality. The longer we live, the more we become practical and reasonable.”

I think the problem is I have come to the conclusion that I am old and therefore my potential to realize a dream is becoming more nonexistent. But that isn’t true. I like how Leonard Sweet in his book, The Well-Played Life puts it. “In the First Age, we swim in pools we did not dig; in the Third Age, we dig pools in which we will probably never swim.”

What that says to me is, buy that RV and maybe you will get to use it but for sure your kids will. So let your imagination go wild. Just below our skin is a young boy and a young girl who is alive with dreams. Let them out to live in your life.

So what is your dream?

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