I love words, part two.

The word “fantasy” (phantasia in the Greek) means “creative imagination, an imagined event or sequence of mental images”.  It also means “an unrealistic or improbable supposition.”

I might fantasize about playing basketball in the NBA.  Fun to think about!  ESPN highlights!  But the facts are: I'm 60 years old, overweight, slow, and at 6'3” tall I'm too short – an unrealistic or improbable supposition.

Walt Disney's 1940 animated movie Fantasia was a healthy fantasy that revealed the creative imagination of the writers and tapped the creative imagination of the watchers.

Did you know pastors have fantasies?

Here are a few of my reoccurring fantasies.

• Everyone will go to bed at a decent time on Saturday night so they will be ready for the Sunday morning service.
• No children will throw up on the way to church.
• There will be no unkind words (or fights!) in the car on the way to church.
• Everyone will bring their Bible.
• Everyone will be on time (never have been able to figure this one out – people are on time for work or appointments, but it's ok to be late for church).
• There will be no sleepers during this Sunday's message (it's been said that pastor's don't talk in their sleep – they talk in their parishioners sleep).
• Everyone will fill in the front chairs or pews first (never have been able to figure this one out as well – the best seats at a baseball game or concert are the front seats, right?).
• And my biggest and best fantasy of all is that when I am done preaching, people will say “No, please don't stop now!  This is so good!  Tell us more!”

I love what I do, but it's OK to fantasize, right?

Think I'll rent Fantasia tonight.

Blessings!

Pastor Mark