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Sometimes we think we know what we see and then again, it might not be. Or perhaps we do see,
but then there is something else besides. Sometimes seeing takes more than light waves hitting the
retina and being transmitted by the optic nerve to the brain. We use the idiom, “I see” not
always to mean “I see something with my eye,” but rather
“I understand.” Or, how about when someone says, “Picture in your
mind’s eye.” How do you do
that? You’re not using your eyeball
at all when you do that. So what are you
using? Imagination. Imagination is one of the great gifts we have been given. “Just imagine,” we say. Just imagine what it would be like if we
weren’t so defensive with one another. Just
imagine what it would be like if we could not only produce enough food
to alleviate chronic hunger—we can—but we could distribute
it to the chronically hungry and by doing so mitigate the affects of
drought and flood. Just imagine Suppose
they gave a war and no one came?, as
from a line in a 1936 poem by Carl Sandberg . And where do we get our imagination?
In Genesis 1 it says that humanity is created in the image
of God—male and female. Being
created in the image of God isn’t so much an anatomical thing. It is the power to imagine which comes from
the word image. It has been my experience that children are wonderful
observes, but not always good at interpreting what they see. Their imaginations can run wild.
Unfortunately, we as adults are often like children
convoluting the image in which we are created with our imaginations
turning toward fear and hating rather than toward openness and love. Our imaginations become like the images in the
mirrors at the fun house in the arcade at the fair.
Our true identity is corrupted. We
then try to fix it ourselves or think that is the way we are suppose to
look. We, as the ones baptized into Christ, are, as the body of
Christ , carry on the image of God in Christ into the world. Imagine that. God be with you, Pastor Ron Kempe |