January 30, 2007
Waltzing
One of my favorite (probable) heresies is that our tradition’s claim that we are created in the image of God really means that we are imagined into being by God. And subsequently that when we, too, imagine we might be closer to doing God’s will, to being most Godlike, to having the mind of Christ within us than maybe at any other time.
Imagination is the way faith takes shape, the way faith is implemented. Like faith, imagination is mostly a risk. It is to be human, to imagine is. To say that I am “only” human as some kind of a cop-out or to say that something is only someone’s imagination is to insult God and God’s way of getting things done.
PS. So why church? Church is the safe house, the safe community where we can practice being human, where we can take on feats of imagination, of being faithful. Church is not where we go to get more spiritual, but to get more human, where we can risk human being and human becoming and taking it all out into the world from time to time for the world to see and feel what it’s like to waltz with Matilda, for God’s sake.
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