I’ve probably mentioned this before, so for those of you
who have heard it before bear with me. When I was a young child I wanted to be
a fashion designer. I made my own clothes. I made clothes for my Barbie doll. I
fashioned jewelry out of wire. I did these things because I enjoyed doing them
and no one told me that I couldn’t do them. No one told me I couldn’t pick up
the wire they fell to the ground when the telephone company worked on the telephone
lines and use it to make colorful jewelry. No one told me I couldn’t make my
Barbie’s clothes. Well my mother did
tell me I couldn’t cut up my socks to make clothes for my doll unless they had
a hole in them, but that’s a different story. No one told me I couldn’t make
moccasins out of an old blanket, or create my own way of embroidering. No one
told me I had to use a pattern when I wanted a maxi skirt because everyone else
had one.
Have you ever watched a child play or listened to them tell
a story? They have the wildest imaginations. They think they can do anything.
When do we lose that sense of imagination, that creativity;
that drive to do whatever we believe we can do? For some of us it’s never. Some
of us live with that childlike faith and belief throughout life. But for many
of us reality hits us at an early age. Someone speaks words of discouragement
that stifle our imagination. It may be a teacher that doesn’t understand our
creativity, and rather than encourage it we may be labeled as disruptive in class
or inattentive.
What is our role as parents or caregivers? When a child wants
to spend more time exploring their creative genius than completing and turning
in homework assignments, or studying it’s a parent or caregiver’s
responsibility to ensure there is balance. An education is important and a gift
should not be neglected.
1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that
is in thee, which was
given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on
of the hands of the presbytery.
Each of us have gifts as I’ve previously stated. I admire
anyone that follows their passion, anyone that refuses to listen to no you
can’t, anyone that perseveres in spite of the naysayers, anyone that perseveres
against the odds, anyone that invests, time, money and effort to fulfill their
destiny.
In my book Who Told You That You Were Naked, Reclaim Your
God-given Birthright (due to be released later this year) I ask the question
who told you that you cannot do or be whatever or whoever God has told you that
you can do or be.
I think from time to time, we are all guilty of allowing
others to dictate who we are and or what we should do, or what we should be. We
may be influenced my well-meaning family, friends, coworkers, or even social
media.
Have you ever thought about what you could do if you
allowed yourself to let your imagination go free, if you allowed the Holy
Spirit to truly take control, if you yielded your vessel completely to God?
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