season of imagination

My friend Kait sent me NY Times article today and I thought about how powerfully transforming imaginations running wild can be.

Shane Claiborne speaks to this when telling of a friend who spread manure in their Christmas Eve service. There was also a donkey. The point of course, is not really to authentically recreate what happened at Jesus’ birth, but to remind us that when we use our imaginations to inform our celebrations, they are changed, and we along with them.