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We live in a rational, left brain world... Yet as human beings, our soul is still fired by colour and imagination. Our minds are storehouses of images and memories and through them God works in our hearts. Praying with our imaginations can create a deeper and more personal intimacy with Jesus, Mary, the disciples and others written about in the scripture. We can take the familiar stories we know and let them flow through our own imagination and see where the Lord guides it.
Using the imagination in prayer has been a treasured tradition in prayer for centuries. It prompted St Francis of Assisi to encourage people to create nativity scenes at Christmas, to imagine the Holy Family as people like we are. four hundred years later, St Ignatius of Loyola used imaginative prayer as a key of his life-transforming Spiritual Exercises...
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