IMAGINATION

MY BODY'S NOW BEGGING
THOUGH IT'S BEGGING TO GET BACK
BEGGING TO GET BACK
TO MY HEART
TO THE RHYTHM OF MY SOUL
TO THE RHYTHM OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS
TO THE RHYTHM THAT YEARNS
TO BE RELEASED FROM CONTROL

My days are full of conversation and I have watched these conversations change rather drastically over the past few years. The past year and a half especially. People are afraid and the confidence they once had seems to not be there anymore. Truth is, most people's confidence is rarely ever grounded in anything real or secure. We have been shaped to trust in our own abilities to work systems that have been set up for us and these systems create such an environment that keeps us from seeing how we are controlled by them. It seems to me, to be such a good thing, that people's misplaced trust is being shaken.

What remains a bit frustrating to me is how it is people that are taking most of the hit/blame and "The System" isn't being questioned much at all...not really. The focus seems to solely be on the notion that people are the problem and the systems we have created are sound and good. As that scenario goes, it's all about people being here to serve the machine. Whether people serve the machine well or whether they are greeding and exploit the machine for personal gain, the machine is not a friend to us and the things that are most important. As it is worshiped today, it actually stands in the way of that which we need the most. Jesus was offered the CEO position of the machines in his time and he clearly wasn't interested. For me whether the systems are sound or not is not the issue...the systems just are what they are and I'm not all that interested in them anymore. If we can find enough freedom to imagine things from a different perspective...a perspective not determined by the system, we might just begin to understand that none of them have ever been what we thought they were and they have never been rivals to real freedom and the beauty and harmony to be found there...they just distract us from making the move to that space our hearts are longing for.

"The royal consciousness leads people to despair about the power to move toward new life. It is the task of prophetic imagination and ministry to bring people to engage the promise of newness that is at work in our history with God." Walter Brueggemann