Failure of Imagination

I have often felt that I have a failure of imagination. As stated in previous posts, that is one reason I am trying to write--to get those creative juices flowing. I have started watching Joan of Arcadia again, this time from the beginning so the storyline actually makes sense. In one episode, God points out to her that He will tell us to do a very simple thing, but that we always make it more complex just by overthinking, usually about how we should do it. We can take instructions as simple as "I do not want this picture on the wall," and make it wrong. Of course our only options make us wonder if we are actually hearing God or if it is actually satan masquerading as God, and in reality all we had to do was pick it up and take it off the wall. We never had to destroy it would fall off the wall. We never had to ask someone to steal it so it would no longer be there. Simply *lift*.

It really is amazing how we take simple instructions and end up starting WW3 over them.