Loving Free Requires Imagination

When Abram’s herdsmen were fighting with Lot’s herdsmen, “Abram said to his nephew Lot: 

Let there be no quarrelling between me and you … for we are brothers.

… Please separate from me … If you go to the left, I will go to the right.

If you go to the right,  I will go to the left” [13:8-9].

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What is so beauty full about Abram's giving his nephew the choicest land is that Abram did not expect anything back.
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Does someone come in to take the place of the beloveds we help prosper on their way?
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Do we broadcast through our world: Loving We Free?
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Is our imagination grand enough to envision an un-endlessly expanding family?
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Can our actions work through our frailties to manifest a world beyond our dreams?
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Can we walk with all our steps faithfully
believing that the source of our imagination,
which is beyond our imagination,
will provide more than we can imagine

Yearning’s Being

10-30-14      Yearning’s Being

It feels good reading your quests Margaret.  Thanks so much.

Here’s how I imagine Abram’s quest:

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Yearning’s Being

How can we describe yearning from our being?
Is it a deep dream we have not dared to dream --
a deep scream we have not dared to scream --
through an empty space we share with the human race?

may cosmos dream through chaos

turning night to day

moving  us to play

sharing the blessing that we pray

Here’s how I imagine Abram’s quest:

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Yearning’s Being

How can we describe yearning from our being?
Is it a deep dream we have not dared to dream --
a deep scream we have not dared to scream --
through an empty space we share with the human race?

may cosmos dream through chaos

turning night to day

moving  us to play

sharing the blessing we pray

Do We All Get the Divinity We Deserve?

When Abram’s life is as barren as his wife, how does he find blessings?

The yearning for blessings must infuse all he does. He’s like a thirsty man in the desert looking for water.

His cry for blessings must also arise from his unconscious and from his Greater Self? 

His cries attract a lonely spirit who promises to fill Abram’s emptiness with a new world of blessing?

Abram and this mysterious Being then co-create a new way for humanity to make divine dreams real.

How much does the energy to co-create a blessed world come from Abraham?
How much does the energy to co-create a blessed world come from Abraham's divinity?

All beings are made of, infused with, blessing force.

Perhaps we sometimes feel this blessing force is outside us until we discover blessing force is in all of us.

Changing Names Changing Lives

Abram's name is changed to Abraham while he is communicating with divinity in chapter 17.

"Abram" means "my father is great."
"Abraham" means "father of many." Abraham no longer is focused on exalting his father. Abraham can look at Ishmael and see and feel: I am a father who is fruitful and multiplying.

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"Sarai" means "my princess."
Her name is changed to "Sarah" in Chapter 17. "Sarah" simply means "princess." She's now a princess who belongs to no one. When she looks into a pool of water she sees a princess looking back at her. She doesn't need Abraham's eyes or anyone else's eyes to feel and know she is a princess.

Traumas Teach

I think it's important to know the traumas in Abram's life. Auden wrote, "we all know a great crime has been committed in our life -- but we don't know who the criminal was or what exactly the crime was."

So I think when the Bible's words are that a son dies before the face of his father we readers are encouraged to investigate what is going on.

Investigating Abraham's father can help us understand the urges Abraham had to kill his two sons. We may then be moved to understand how Abraham is able to transform murderous impulses.

God And His Writers

I wonder what the relationship is between God and the biblical writer.

The writer of the Bible has the chutzpah to tell us that the Lord Yahway is commanding Abram [12:1]-- even if Abram does not know who is speaking to him.

Scholars now know there were many writers who contributed to Genesis.
Some scholars call the last writer the Redactor or "R".
"R" could also stand for "Rabbi."

God springs out of R's psyche the way beings spring through our dreams.

So is humanity, represented by our editing Rabbi, greater than God because our God is created by us?

Here is a similar idea from the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai:

Prayer creates God
who creates humanity
whose prayers
re-create God
re-creating humanity.