Imagination

No one took me up on my invitation to imagine what the Trinity might look like.

Actually I am somewhat disappointed.

I am disappointed not because my readers didn’t respond; but because imagining brings life and fun and change to an other wise moth-eaten theology.

We are all involved in the most precious journey of our live — the search for the truth of God.

  

A God by, the way, who has been, for centuries,  restricted by the human imagination.  

People have become so serious, so sober, so un-playful  when it comes to God. 

We have become afraid to fool with what seems to be set in stone.  Like the Ten Commandments.  

I know that was true of myself when I first began my journey as a pastor.  I didn’t think of God as someone to be taken lightly.  And I didn’t.  I still don't.

However.

The professor challenged our intellectual mind-set by asking:  What does the Trinity look like?

Because for far too long our faith — religion — has encapsulated  a religion — I didn’t say faith — that keeps God at arms length.

It took me years to have the freedom to understand that God likes giggles.

That God has a tremendous sense of humor.

That God gave us the ability to imagine way beyond what seems to be true.

That God gave us the freedom not to do it, or think it, the way “it has always been done” or thought.

Our lack of freedom, when it come to faith, has stunted God’s possibility to help us share His amazing laughter.

Here is the deal, the God I have gown to know and trust is not found in rituals, traditions, creeds or on a pedestal untouchable some where.

He is roaming around all about us hoping that we will kid with him, and laugh with him, and share his playful  nature with the world.