Piloting Faith: Imaginal cells...
A Word for the Day...
The amazing part of the transformation from the caterpillar to the butterfly is that you have this middle space, the cocooning season, where your body literally becomes mush. You disintegrate. You lose shape. You lose everything that defined you as a caterpillar. You become goo. In meaningful ways, you die to what you were.
But here is the miracle: inside that deathly mush are imaginal cells. These cells hold the vision of a future within them. When all seems lost and nothing that was known can be known as it was, the imaginal cells give us the vision for moving forward. They know that with the right conditions and a little time, a butterfly waits to be born.
We are mush right now. We are messy, fragile, unprotected, insecure, unrecognizable, disoriented, developing, transforming, imaginal beings. We are in that liminal space between what was and what can be. Our becoming something better on the other side of this is not guaranteed. But with the right conditions, with the awakening of people to the beauty of our planet and the intimacy of our connection to everyone and everything, we have the chance to become something new.
Don't dismiss this as flowery language or overly optimistic dreaming. If ever there was a moment for you to become who God has dreamed you to be, it's now. Don't miss the chance. Everything is being made new, especially you.
Rev. Cameron Trimble
Author of 60 Days of Faith: A Devotional
Prayer for the Week
May we who are merely inconvenienced
remember those whose lives are at stake.
May we ho have no risk factors
remember those who are most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from home
respect and support those who must choose between
preserving their health or paying their rent.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children
when their schools close
remember those who have no options.
May we who have had to cancel our trips
remember those who have no place to go.
May we who are losing our investments,
remember those who have no home.
During this time, when we can not physically wrap our arms around each other, let us each find ways to be the loving embrace of humanity to our neighbors.
Be aware. Be Accepting. Be supportive. Be kind.
Amen.
- Author unknown
