Creative energy

Try to imagine it, even though you know you cannot: a creative imagination and energy so great that it would produce light, gravity, time, and space . . . galaxies, stars, planets, and oceans . . . mountains, valleys, deserts, and forests . . . . gorillas, dolphins, golden retrievers, and us.

Brian D. McLaren, We Make the Road by Walking

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try to imagine

that force, that power, that reality

that is behind everything

 

everything we see, smell, touch, feel

 

imagine if you can the kind of imagination

creativity

genius

that came up with an aardvark

 

that came up with the quirky

with the vast

with the microscopic

with the grand

 

imagine the giftedness

the power

 

but above all, imagine the love

the love we see in creation

the love we see in the creatures of the earth

the love we see in Jesus

 

such love!

 

imagine being loved that much

and then move beyond imagining

 

move to that place where you accept

that this “great, big, beautiful, mysterious goodness, wholeness, and aliveness”

surrounds you and upholds you

 

and not just you

those around you

the good, the bad, and the ugly

 

the saint and the sinner

 

ah!

how great is the love with which we are loved

that we should be called

the children of God

 

for that is what we are (1 John 3:1)