Dreaming Big. Sometimes life offers the opportunity to step outside our current situation and ask ourselves - what if? Today I thought about possibility. Quietly letting my heart open itself to passions while subduing the rational voice that so eager seeks to critique. While rational decision-making is a paramount skill in life, I think the world would stand still if we limited ourselves to the rational device. I don't think we'd ever get married or have children. We'd limit the creation of new art and inventions. We'd limit compassion. We'd limit that creative force that changes the world.
Faith demands more than rational thought. Our God is a creator and created us in his image, to dream and to create. By lingering in places that are inaccessible by reason alone, God invites us to wrestle with and voyage through the less defined geographies of the heart.
While the dark hues of Lenten discipline seem hardly the place to bring the bright colors of our dreams, I dare to say it calls us to be bold in our passions. How can the cross be understood with reason? Jesus carried his cross with the dream of Easter morning in his heart. Be bold. Dream big.
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