I’m sitting out here on our newly remodeled porch and swimming pool with Isabella on my legs. I’m feeding her and her eyes are wide open, looking at me. I have music playing and I’m waving her two-month-old arms, back and forth to the music.

It’s now sunset on our back porch. We’re watching the lake as the sun drops closer to it. Jordan and Jared are swimming and enjoying the early summer evening.

Jordan, who’s now eight, pokes his head out of the water and wants to know if we can check the Internet tonight to see whether we can both locate and order a personal hovercraft to use either on the lake or in the pool. I ask him what it is, and he says that it is like a great big hovercraft, except that it is really like a bumper car that he could be using to have fun while he was swimming with his friends or his brother or playing on the lake.

I ask him whether there is such a thing, and he says, exasperated, “Dad, I don’t know. But if they don’t make it, let’s just order one and have them make it for us!”

My how silly of me. You know, I was absolutely stunned. I guess I shouldn’t be because I’ve operated that way for most of my life. I think I was more stunned that it is visible enough for Jordan to identify with it.

You know, as we go through life, we recognize certain modes of behavior in all of us.

Some of us operate based upon what is already available in the real world.

Others of us don’t even bother to check out what’s available in the real world; we just assume that it’s not.

There are others who envision what it would be like if…

And, still others who, when wondering what it would be like if…recognize that we can make it that way—either by ourselves or by having someone more skilled than we are doing it for us.

“Let’s make it in our image and likeness, Dad.” In our image and likeness! Oh my. Where could he possibly have heard that?

For years, I’ve operated under the assumption that says if I can’t find it, I can build it or have it built. And if I’m going to do that, I might as well build it in my own image and likeness. What’s the point of building something, if it is going to be different from how I view myself or the picture I have in my mind?

After all, if it doesn’t currently exist, the picture you have in your mind of how you want it to look in life and in reality is what should drive it anyway, especially when it ultimately manifests!

“And Daddy, I’d rather it have two people in it so I can have fund with Jared, but if it doesn’t and it only seats one at a time, I’m okay with that too!” Got it, Jordan.

We’ll see what we can do.

Original writing date: August 2003

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