Erwin McManus: Every day I interact with women and men who are haunted by the thought that they are living beneath their potential. They range from driven and ambitious to discouraged and depressed. As different as they may appear they all have this one element in common- an unexplainable sense of longing they can’t seem to satisfy. This longing is rooted in that singular characteristic that distinguishes humans from all other species- imagination. Imagination is our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. Our imagination can create an image of a world we have never known and imagine the world as it should be. That image can become so compelling we are inspired and compelled to transform the world around us to match the world that only exists in our minds. Many of us live enjoying the benefit of a world someone else imagined. In a sense we are all living inside of someone’s imagination. We find ourselves powerless when the world or our life is not what we imagined. We are most alive when we are living out our dreams. At the same time the world we imagine demands our response. Our deepest and most powerful dreams will not allow themselves to be ignored. To do so we soon discover it comes at a great cost. We do not live well when we live beneath those dreams. To ignore them is to awaken a phantom that will haunt us both when we sleep and while we are awake. When we imagine but do not create we are left with an overwhelming sense of dissatisfaction. When we imagine a better world and do not risk to create it we find no fulfillment in our success. When we imagine ourselves as better, or different than we are, but do not change we are in danger of despair and hopelessness...
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:32:46 +0000
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