When my husband and I began discussing ideas for our family life
together, we wanted to develop the sacramental worldview in ourselves
and in any children we would have. Now that we have four children, I
think that we can safely say that some of our ideas are working: our
children seem to have sacramental imaginations.
The place where humans process their experience of the world is in
their imaginations. In the imagination, our sensory experience and our
rationality meet. And it seems that having a well-developed, active
imagination is essential to experiencing the true sacramentality of the
world and living in a truly human way. With a good imagination, it is
easy to experience God in our daily, mundane lives. And with a good
imagination, a person is unable to reduce the world to a pure science,
which the mentality that mainstream society has embraced.
Loved this. Do you have a list of favorite books and the few movies that you approved? Thanks, Nellie
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