01.04.08

Seabeck, 2007

Posted in ekklesia, formation, mission, missional order at 6:00 am by len

There is always more to say.. But I pulled together my posts that related directly to my time in Seabeck last fall. With two exceptions..

The other posts that related were a reflection on Alan’s talk offered on Wednesday morning..

And an extended quote from Walter Brueggemann on covenant as a subversive paradigm.

This morning I am thinking about this short piece from Hopeful Imagination..

“Only through the practice of memory will new possibility emerge. Without some form of memory, this sentence you are reading would make no sense… Without memory we become imprisoned in an absolute present, unaware of the direction we have come from, and therefore what direction we are heading in. Without memory there can be no momentum, no discernible passage of time, and therefore no movement or velocity…

“As Israel in exile began to accept their lot as their ..captors fed it to them, Isaiah stepped in and began to exercise their imaginations. His poetry opened the sealed vaults of their minds..

“Our problem today: the space for imagination to expand and take shape is inversely proportional to the speed at which we live. Driven hard and fast, we lack the time to allow alternate worlds and possibilities to form, careening past small turnings and exits, bound to follow the obvious straight paths of the present arrangement. Yet if we stop and wait, and close our eyes to the “buy now, take me now” images, we will begin to remember, new worlds will form and new exits will become apparent. Before change.. comes waiting..” (56-57)

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