It was late the other night when I had turned off my Android
phone and MacBook Pro. The Kindle was
powered down and my wife was asleep while I reveled in her soft breathing as
the day’s concerns were brushed away in slumber. It was quiet in the house for the first time
all day and I remembered a moment of time in my youth when I was able to board
a sailing ship and slip away from schoolwork and those things that had been
troubling me.
Our house in Seattle had a large EL shaped basement with
ping pong and pool tables. This
particular night my parents were upstairs watching TV and I was preparing for a
wonderful voyage over the ocean. My
sailing yacht was an ancient shopping cart rescued from a dumpster and
refurbished by my father. I lined it
with pillows and quilts (it was cold on the ocean) and snuggled down into the
cockpit. With my hand on the rudder
(broomstick), I pushed off from the dock (pool table) and began my
adventure.
Several months before I had shot the rapids (Roosevelt
Avenue) in this same boat and had fully healed up after landing it on the rocks
(104th Street Curb). Tonight
I merely wanted to breathe a sigh of contentment and imagine my travels from
island to island in my limited inland sea.
It’s funny how much fun you can have in a room with finite
dimensions when your mind provides the scenery and magnifies the
distances. As a child I used to imagine
my favorite cartoons in my head after being put to bed. Now I was hearing the lap of waves against
the hull of my happy ship while taking care not to capsize in rough seas (a
very real concern on the concrete floor).
One thing I love about serving God is that He is not limited
by our human frailties. God will provide
vision where there can be none and overcome your lack of ability through His
limitless bounty. Every nation that has
ever had a spiritual Christian revival has also experienced a revival of
invention and great imagination. There
may be nothing new under the sun but there is always something new under the
SON. Your Father’s great pleasure is to
grant you those insights.
You will never discover these great miracles by watching
your favorite show on Wednesday night but you just might by spending some quiet
time with God on the ocean of your imagination.
Your Heavenly Father seizes on these precious moments and infuses you
with vision and understanding. He
creates links between what is and what could be while you sail on what might
be.
My hope and prayer is that all of you will find your own sea
of discovery and in so finding will learn that God is still in the business of
working powerful miracles in times of quiet reflection. Take time to be rested and then imagine what
might be on the sea that rolls out before you.
The greatest have often turned a daydream into a vision for
the future. Sail away into your place of
revelation and allow the Lord to work a miracle in your life. He’s waiting to meet you there.
Bishop J
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