Author: Michael Tino

“In order to solve any problem, you have to be able to imagine a world in which it is solved.” -Jeanine Braithwaite (CLF)

What is a problem whose solution you need to work on imagining?

“Imagine: you are irreplaceable.
Imagine: you are crafted to offer the world something different from everyone else.
Imagine: you are an irreplaceable part of this interconnected, interdependent web of precarious, precious life.” -From “Imagining Liberation” by Anna Blaedel

What are you crafted to offer the world?

“From this ground, let us sow mercy, justice, and compassion. Let us offer our stories to provide our staples of wisdom. And when we do, let us create and experience the Presence and Affirmation that allows us to connect with our theological imagination so that the harvest of our faith will be Abundant Grace.” -Melissa Jeter

How does your theology imagine abundant grace?

Imagine a glass of cold water – feel it. Take a sip, feel the coolness run down your throat. Feel the water enter your body. Feel it pick up the things that you no longer need and cleanse them away from you. What is it washing away?

What do you need to get rid of?

Do not afflict me with a vision so narrow and a heart so small,
That all my greatest hopes ­could be accomplished within a ­single lifetime.
Rather, bless me with an unquiet spirit.” -From “A Prayer for Unfinished Business” by Kelly Weisman Asprooth-Jackson

What do you imagine that goes beyond your lifetime?