Yesterday I was at one of the local banks in town doing some last minute rearrangement of my bank account. As I was visiting with the bank teller, I noticed a big plasma screen on the back wall.
The screen was flashing different advertisements and the like. One of the things flashed on the screen was a little segment called "word to the wise." In this segment there was a quote from somebody famous.
One of the quotes flashed on the screen was from Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist. The quote was the following, "Everything you can imagine is real."
My first thought was that Mr. Picasso should stick with painting, becasue he is a far better painter than philosopher.
The quote doesn't mean anything. Everything I can imagine is not real; in fact many of the things we imagine is bogus.
The season Christmas isn't a season of imagination. Rather, it a season in which we surrender our imagination to what is real. We let reality as it is change how we imagine anything and everything.
At Christmas we have to step outside of our imagination and we have to let reality inform us just how far our imagination falls short of what is most real.
At Christmas we celebrate God becoming man, born of a virgin, born in a manger between the ox and the ass in a sleepy little town of Bethlehem, with shepherds and magi and angels singing "glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth."
Born this day is a savior.
Who could have ever imagine that!
No at Christmas we are invited to appreciate reality as it is not as we might imagine it to be.
Blessed be God who can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine.
EVery time we say "merry Christmas" we are saying that God goes beyond our imagination, God is more than. This is the good news, the foundation of our faith, hope, love and joy.
What is real is more than what we can imagine.
May we keep it real and let reality keep us sound and joyful and free.
Born this day is the king of kings, the lord of lords, the savior who comes to take away our sins.
It is real, whether you can imagine it or not!
1 comment:
Father: Very well said. I always wonder how much people actually understand the meaning of Christmas. When Christ was born,God sent himself to us in the human form of flesh(the word incarnate),someone people could actually see and believe in, someone with human traits, but divine nature and spirit, someone who eventually gave his life for us in order to save us all from original sin. This is what Christmas means to me. It is very real to me and I love Him with all my earthly heart.
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