It was only a few years ago that I read the quote about
worry BEing the misuse of imagination. I am NOT sure who to attribute it to.
[easy enough, it’s Dan Zadra]
For me it appeared as a sort of cryptic message.
I knew I
was a worrier, but I didn’t know that my defaulting to worry could BE remedied
by building its strength to DO other things.
Rather than worrying HOW or WHAT I’ll DO, Now I imagine, envision, and dream
up scenarios that make my heart sing and my feet BEgin to tap.
Now I embrace the imaginative energy that I
have available to put toward those things that give me HOPE.
It’s NOT as easy
as it sounds…
Most people seem to think the way to solve a problem is to
think it through. Well, most of the people I know or converse with anyway.
How odd it feels to imagine rather than worry.
At first.
Like pretending I don’t know something I DO know. Like BElieving in the Tooth
Fairy.
In a way, I think of prayer as a means of building imagination.
Especially prayer that surrenders, that deeply and completely entrusts the
whatever-I’m-praying-about to what or whom I pray.
MayBE that seems weird, but imagining hopefully works for
me.
Really, really well.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
Thank you Currie, I found this way too...out of the worry trap and into the wide open of life. Smiles to you, Anke :)
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