That was a truly thoughtful and heartfelt piece. Thanks,

“As wrong as the theology of Emerson (or Whitman i would add in this case), and it was anti-Christian, could it be that what he hungered for, namely that which transcends the hum-drum catogories of life without imagination and freedom, is precisely what we all hunger for (in some sense) because God put this hunger within us? It is possible that this hunger is suppressed and rejected by most Christians in the name of conserving biblical truth? Could it be that even suppressing this God-given hunger, at least in the wrong way, could actually lead people away from real faith in the living Christ?”
What I have discovered after sixty years of life, fifty-five of them consciously following jesus, is that young men and women do see visions, especially today. They long for “new” wine and new expression of the ancient way. They are not always clear about what this is because they are young and inexperienced, but they really and truly long for it. But I find
very few “old men who “dream dreams.” Could it be that this is precisely what God is rectifying in our own time? ” ( from john h armstrong, ACT3 discipleship series)
Let’s dream dreams……

I really like these lines:
“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough”

and

“Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves;
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?”

Though I’m not quite sure what they conceal themselves from.

But not as strange as mine.