Kaleidoscopes found their way into my active imagination recently. When an image sticks around for more than a day, I know I need to pay attention. What this time? Lens, colors, bits of glass or plastic,mirrors, tubes, changing patterns...nothing resonated for days.contemporary kaleidoscope circa 1980
Today I found a stunning quote by Luci Shaw. It says when we are created in the image of God,
“... we participate in creative intelligence, giftedness, originality. We each have the faculty of imagination deep within us, waiting, like a seed, to be watered and fertilized.”
Immediately after I read this a kaleidoscope popped into my mind. And looking through a lens at little colored bits of plastic seeds trapped in a tube making patterns over and over.
And then I thought of Lent.
Like seeds, my ideas of myself and the world rattle around inside, repeating mandelas that are not always colorful or pretty. My imagination is not always intelligent, gifted or original.
This Lent is asking me- is it time to look through a new lens? Or get rid of lenses altogether for 40 days?
What about you?
