Still trying the new site, but realized I gave the admin link last time. Here's a good link to the new post:
http://ifgraceisanoceanwerealldrowning.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/fear-of-the-lord-is-wisdom/
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Trying new site
I've had several complaints in regard to using this site, so I'm trying WordPress. Here's today's blog:
http://ifgraceisanoceanwerealldrowning.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
grace and peace,
Lang
http://ifgraceisanoceanwerealldrowning.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
grace and peace,
Lang
Monday, March 5, 2012
Imagination
Hi Everyone-
I pray you're doing well on this wet and windy day (here in the Northwest). On my walk to the ferry one gust of wind blew my umbrella inside out and my hat off! Craziness.
What do you think of when you hear the term imagination? I think of art, stories, children, fairy tales, music, and the like. But what about God and the Church? I know I don't typically associate the two directly that often. So, I was struck by what Barbara Brown Taylor writes:
"The church's central task is an imaginative one. By that I do not mean a fanciful or fictional task, but one in which the human capacity to imagine--to form mental pictures of the self, neighbor, the world, the future, to envision new realities--is both engaged and transformed." She goes on to add that, "'Faith,' says theologian James Whitehead, 'is the enduring ability to imagine life in a certain way.'"
Personally I love that. Faith and what we're called to do and be as the Church isn't fanciful or fake, but it is imaginative. We must first imagine a world without sickness, poverty, abuse, war, and the like before we can make it a reality. It takes imagination to envision God's past, present, and future recreation of the world through the works of Jesus. On a personal level, I use imagination to see the better husband, father, friend, brother, son, student, etc. that I can be through the transforming work of the Spirit before I start becoming those things.
This brings to my mind some of the words of John Lennon from "Imagine":
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too (I view Christianity as better than religion)
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
What do you think? How's your imagination today?
Grace and peace,
Lang
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I pray you're doing well on this wet and windy day (here in the Northwest). On my walk to the ferry one gust of wind blew my umbrella inside out and my hat off! Craziness.
What do you think of when you hear the term imagination? I think of art, stories, children, fairy tales, music, and the like. But what about God and the Church? I know I don't typically associate the two directly that often. So, I was struck by what Barbara Brown Taylor writes:
"The church's central task is an imaginative one. By that I do not mean a fanciful or fictional task, but one in which the human capacity to imagine--to form mental pictures of the self, neighbor, the world, the future, to envision new realities--is both engaged and transformed." She goes on to add that, "'Faith,' says theologian James Whitehead, 'is the enduring ability to imagine life in a certain way.'"
Personally I love that. Faith and what we're called to do and be as the Church isn't fanciful or fake, but it is imaginative. We must first imagine a world without sickness, poverty, abuse, war, and the like before we can make it a reality. It takes imagination to envision God's past, present, and future recreation of the world through the works of Jesus. On a personal level, I use imagination to see the better husband, father, friend, brother, son, student, etc. that I can be through the transforming work of the Spirit before I start becoming those things.
This brings to my mind some of the words of John Lennon from "Imagine":
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too (I view Christianity as better than religion)
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
What do you think? How's your imagination today?
Grace and peace,
Lang
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