… in the Image …

Something seemed missing from those familiar, sacred lists[i]of gifts and fruits of the inspirer.                         
Then, Duh! Of course! In the Word’s beginning, before any thing of substance,        there was image-ination.

Always, everywhere, this original spirit-gift was, is, and always shall be.          All the entities and relationships in this universe, atom to galaxy, then and now, are not prescribed from on high but consequences of infinite imagination set free here below to always become whatever they may, shared by all, both celebrated and grieved by the  great imaginer, responded to by whomever among we, the Earth-bound, pauses to listen, see, feel, contemplate, share, enact.

The eternal fount of imagination simply ignores institutionalism’s efforts to tame its flow.No matter how sternly blinkered religion has tried, and still tries, to constrain this holiness in its sanctuaries, it still bursts forth here below in art, music, poetry, ecology, cosmology, beauty,  wonder and love wherever manifest.     

We, mere ants but seekers, channels, of hope for all, are invited to accept the gift                 of the ultimate freedom lift our eyes, to imagine more freely.

[i] I Cor. 12.4-11, Gal. 5.22-23