Imagination

“I assure you, many a prophet and many a saint longed to see what you see, but did not see it, to hear what you hear but did not hear it” Matthew 13:16-17 In the George Bernard Shaw play entitled “St. Joan,” Joan of Arc is questioned about her claims of intimate communication with God. “How do you mean? voices?” she is asked. “I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God,” she says. “They come from your imagination,” the interrogator insists. To which St. Joan replies, “Of course–that is how the message of God comes to me.” Anyone who reads the daily newspapers knows that it takes real imagination to appreciate today’s message from God in Matthew’s Gospel. “Blest are your eyes because they see, and blest are your ears because they hear!” Jesus tells us. Yet, our daily fare of bad news from every corner of the world is more apt to numb our sensibilities and diminish our zest for…