Take away all the religious jargon about Jesus and perhaps you can see that he was the Great “Imaginer.”

“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

“Rise, take up your mat and walk.”

“Even though you die, yet shall you live.”

Now THAT’S a great imagination!

The spiritual journey is less about learning “facts” about “what is” and more about using the imagination to dream about “what isn’t” – yet. Can a hater become a lover? Can the hungry be fed? Can justice flow like a mighty river, washing away injustice and oppression of every kind? Can the world be made right and her peoples one?

In the dim light of “reality”, these dreams are shadowy at best, perhaps even impossible. But an active imagination casts a glow of hope and the possibility of all things being made new.

More important to our personal and interpersonal well-being than religious dogma or practice is imaginative spirituality.

You can see this at work in the life of the Great Imaginer.

It can work in our lives too!