This week: God as imagining life. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. It is not always easy to see a way into a life that is more robustly alive. At times all the powers at hand seems to be able to control us and move us and play with us until we do not let ourselves live as fully as God intends us to live. God as imagining life is the power that is able to liberate us from the violence of the world that we so often let control us. God as imagining life is the person who resists the threats of death and finds - in the face of violence - the way of peace. This way of peace must be a part of the wonder-filled imagination God grants us so that we can live anew. God is in the middle of that imagination. God as imagining life is the whirlwind that stirs up our hearts and enables us to walk into and through the valley of death and all of the threats it casts on our lives. We walk imagining our the Reign of God that is a promise - not yet fulfilled but eternally available. When we are being grasped by fear - when violence seems to be the only way to survive the day - when striking out against others is becoming the way we think we will make it, we are invited by our God to imagine another reality. O God of love and new life, open our hearts and mind to life that is not yet apparent but is always at hand - by your power, O God. Amen. |
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