Visions: Kangaroos Eat Worms, Not Chocolate

Kangaroos Don't Like Chocolate

Johnny is quite Depp in the movie, Chocolat. The actor believably interacts with an imaginary kangaroo, chatting about chocolate, bugs, and he even takes on a pretend worm-eating challenge. It is winsome (although the entire movie might include some slightly questionable ideas). Johnny's character clearly demonstrates in the kangaroo scene that two can play the imagination game as he creatively enters into a young girl's roo-world.

Imagination and visions are strenuous exercises. They fuel thinking and open windows into the soul. As silver hair sets up home in my bouffant, do I dare to think that the Creator of my mind would want me to imagine? Nothing transcendent, but just a smidge?

Should I step back and be guarded? Lost in the middle? Does a little daydreaming, pushing the bounds (or bonds), remove the comfort of security? Is it safe to dream? In color, even? Kangaroos ardently prefer worms to tres bon chocolate, and pre-21st-Century white-shirt corporate America risk-takers believed...

...no one strenuously objects to beige.

White shirts were safe; beige was acceptably bold and dreaming. Today, in the dress-shirt world, we have colorful reality.

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17).