I had heard stories about God in church, but I wondered what God was really like. I figured that the reason people closed their eyes when they prayed in church was because God must come down and walk the aisles while we weren't looking. So, in my youthful ingenuity, I tried to peek really quickly to see if I could see God. Needless to say I went away from church that morning disappointed. My precious imagination had failed to explain what I thought was the reality around me.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge provides for us a starting point, and imagination gives us the means to stretch from that point. Faith is the element which allows our imagination to break free of the constraints of knowledge. And however unlikely it sounds, it was imagination empowered by faith that led me to the Reality that changed my life. I had never really doubted the Christian faith in which I was brought up in, but there came a point in my life when I had to find out for myself if what I believed was only indoctrination from my youth. I began to read the Bible.