Imaginary World? Or the Kin-dom of the Heart?

"The Purple Door" copyright 2011, Caris Cerdwyn, All rights reserved

     This was taken at the Ithaca Children's Garden.  It's a lovely spot, and I will post some more photos over the week from there.  An interesting subject this purple door.  Children's lives have fewer stringent lines.  A door isn't necessarily a boundary, as it is in the adult world.  A door is full of possibility.  What lies behind it?  Where will it lead?  Will there be some amazing other world there?  I suppose every door has an element of that, but looking through a child's eyes, one can see more possibilities, and everything is surprising!  When you are seeing so much of the world for the first time, it is an exciting place of discovery.
     "Unless you become as a child, you cannot enter the kin-dom of God..."  The dreamers, the poets, the mystics, the storytellers, the artists understand that at some level.  It's not about throwing responsibility to the wind.  But rather allowing ourselves to see the world with fresh eyes.  Allowing ourselves the indulgence of exploring the realm of imagination.  And as we do that, we plug into the Source.  God.  The kin-dom...that colorful, inclusive and always surprising place in the center of God's heart.