We continue with another section of Walter Wink’s “The Human Being.”
Indeed, it is God that lures us toward our transformative possibilities. Left to ourselves, we would go on repeating the past. Our given potentiality like that of the acorn, is always merely to repeat the past, to be and do what we have always been and done before. God presents the “heavenly” possibilities as a challenge to go beyond our conditioning and habits, our collusion in oppression or being oppressed, our inertia, fear, and neuroses. God offers the heavenly possibilities for creative novelty, and we can accept wholly, or in part, or reject completely and go on repeating our past.
The image of the acorn is becoming one of my favorite ones when considering who we are and what we can be. I think it is also important to remember that our possibilities for taking part in a transformative life are also a gift to us. That means God gives us the power to enter into those possibilities. And yet, we can and we do refuse to be nothing more than an acorn…nothing more than what was even when our God bids us to come and take part in the blossoming of a new age.
Connection: Acorns are good things…but it is not all we can be today. What will be a sign of creative novelty in your life today?!?
Break into this day, O God, and by the power of the Holy Spirit help us move in a new way so that we will have the opportunity to look at life from a new perspective and in that new looking, we may find life to be more than what we have let it be. Thanks be to you. Amen
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