Back For The First Time
It has been a while since I’ve blogged, not because I have had nothing to say but because life took me for a ride that I was not ready for. Since my last post in 2019, I have had a new addition to our family (Leonah Michelle); I finished my Master of Divinity degree, into my second year of a doctorate program, moved, and started a new job. That is the short version of everything that has been going on in my life. So, why am I picking up blogging again? I sure do not need anything else to fill my time but I always have this burning desire to share what I am learning along the way. I have tried many times to get away from writing but I am always drawn back into this idea that I must write, and if I do not get it out, it will eat at me. So here we are…
Back again for the first time. For the two of you that still read this blog, thank you! For those that are finding me for the first time, welcome. I am making a recommitment to write and publish weekly an idea, thought, poem, or something that relates around the idea of God, theology, and us. I have decided to call this the holy imagination of God. It is something amazing and it is hidden in plain sight throughout creation, scripture, nature, and you. We are all designed to communicate the holy imagination of God and I hope that while I am discovering myself in writing that I can help us communicate better that holy imagination of God that is inside of all of us.
I have been trying to define what the Holy Imagination of God is. This is a working definition but when I consider the Holy Imagination of God I have a picture of a child who is creating something beautiful, uninhibited by time restraints, resources, or requirements. They are free to create to their heart’s content, until what they look at what they create and say “it is good.” God is creative. He has in all of us his imagination for us, what we are created to do, what we are meant to accomplish, and how we are to partner with the Creator to unleash his Holy Imagination on the world. This is reminiscent of Genesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.1” I am not sure where this is going to take me/us but I am asking you to join me on this journey and let’s see where it will end.
So to you, the first-time reader I am inviting you to join me in discovering the Holy Imagination of God that is already inside of you. For the returning reader, I am inviting you to re-engage with me as we travel down this road together.
