May 14, 2024 – A

Walter Brueggermann wrote The Prophetic Imagination,
in 1978 about the wonder of Old Testament prophets
being able to imagine a world 
different from the one they lived in,
and the courage they displayed
to call the people of Israel to live in that world.

"The prophetic imagination" is always calling us
beyond this here/now into the next here/now--
the one we are capable of living into existence
by following the lead of our imaginative intuition,
which is always on the cusp,
on the threshold of "The Old has passed away!
Behold the New has come!"

The new world beckons from beyond this world's 
ideas for itself,
directing us to find our way to it
by listening to our intuitive guide
and doing what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
allowing the simple act of doing what needs to be done,
when, where and how it needs to be done,
to lead us into "all things new"--
which we could not foresee,
but are able to bring forth,
just by doing what is called for
in each moment at hand.

If you are looking for a calling,
you cannot find a better one
than doing what is called for here/now
and allowing that to carry us into the next here/now
and all that are to come!

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