Friday, February 19, 2010
Lent
I realize that this is no longer Advent but I'm still looking for Jesus in the everyday. Today this random thought popped into my head "God looks a lot like Abraham Lincoln. Only without the hat." See, I could always see God in my imagination and lately I kept thinking who does God look like, I know it's someone only I can put my finger on who it is. And then this afternoon I realized who it was - Honest Abe. This is totally irrational, and some might say blasphemous, but somehow I think that God might get a chuckle out of it. Now, you might be wondering what this has to do with finding Jesus in the everyday - and I guess I would say that I find him inhabitating my unconscious mind, my memories, and my imagination. I find him when I'm writing my blogs, I find him when just the right word pops into my head, I find him when I stare at a blank page and wonder what on earth am I going to write. Sometimes that is where I experience him the most.
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This is interesting to me, because I cannot picture God as anyone or anything. When I try to imagine what God looks like, I always turn to Jesus, but there I'm stuck with all of the artist's conceptions of him which probably don't look anything like him. But I like the idea of finding him in your writing and such. I think I'll look there, too. Thanks.
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