Alas we have reached one of my favorite English poets, William Blake. Honestly, it isn’t his poetry that I’m so attracted to… In fact, I prefer Wordsworth’s to Blake’s! It’s his philosophy that I’m so fond of. He LOVED the imagination. He believed the human life included three stages. The first was the innocence of childhood. He believed children had an innate understanding of truth. However, one could not stay in this stage. They must go through the trials of life (experience) in which innocence is destroyed and imagination is lost. All is not lost though. Blake said that restoration came through the revival of the human imagination through the power of God through Jesus Christ. He is quoted to have said, “The imagination in it’s highest form is the divine body of the Lord Jesus Christ.” AH I love that. I love imagination. I love creativity. I love that I am an art-piece of God. I’m His handiwork! I live within His imagination. Such a beautiful concept. I was saddened when my friend in English seemed so befuddled at the concept of imagination. He simply couldn’t wrap his mind around it! What a sad way to live… It’s much better to live realizing you’re living in and apart of the most extravagant imagination possible! I’m watching Finding Neverland right now which only further encourages my love of imagination. I can’t help but smile when I read the quote from Peter Pan… The famous words of J.M. Barrie… “When the first baby laughed for the very first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” = ) I believe I would have liked J.M. Barrie very much. Another quote of his that I love is “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” In the midst of the coldest day, a memory can bring back a sweeter day. Warmth can flood the heart, mind and body causing a smile to grace my face. Even now I’m smiling remembering happier days. Okay I’ve rattled on about imagination and Neverland and memories long enough… But take some time if you read this to become a child. Laugh like a child (children on average laugh 400 times a day). Jump into an imaginative world. You won’t regret it = )
