Holy Imagination & Holy Discontent
Recently, I discovered a great mental exercise that John Maxwell included in his book Developing the Leaders Around You . In this exercise, which is designed to help you identify your dreams, you ask yourself two question: "If I had________________," I would_________________." If you had unlimited time, money, information, anything you asked for, what would you do? Whatever your answer is to the second question is what you're dreaming for your life, Maxwell asserts. The genius behind this kind of exercise is that once you start thinking about the possibility of your dream, you start to wonder if you might either already have all of the resources you need to achieve it or at least a way to acquire them. I got to thinking about how this applies to our journey with Jesus, and the struggles we often have to imagine a world that has not yet been made right. I'm afraid more than a few of us Jesus-followers spend a lot of time won...