new flight paths for our spirit space, new marvels to
explore.
Engage our wits to dance with you, to leap from logic’s
base,
to capture insight on the wing, to sense your cosmic
grace.
---Shirley Erena Murray, 1990
Frank Sinatra, or if you preferred your jazz a little more
complex Billie Holliday, sang “All of me, why not take all of me?” As Christians, we are used to thinking in terms of
offering ‘all’ of ourselves to
God---our hearts, our energies, our talents, our financial resources, even our
time. One thing many of us don’t think of using in the service of God, sadly,
is our minds, especially our imaginations.
What does it mean to engage our sense of discovery and
imagination in the service of God? What kind of certainties must we let go of
to follow our creative God in the exercise of holy imagination? How might our
world change if we leapt unafraid, partnered with God, into the discovery of
new insights, deeper understandings of ancient spiritual truths, new sacred
heartspace?
Dare we be adventurers together, as we bring the ‘all’ of all of us in offering to the God who has always
brought all of Godself to us as
joyful gift?
