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The heart of the Bible is not the presentation of history but a font of imagination that hosts a world other than the one in front of us. By “imagination” Brueggemann does not mean “irreal” but quite the opposite. He claims that the world we live in, the world where the empires of man rule, is the parody. All empires are acts of imagination: they present a world that lures humanity into its false hopes and lays claim to our hearts and souls as the unquestioned status quo. Before you know it, you are duped. You take what the world offers–commodities, prejudices, fears, injustices, violence, false gods–and you accept it all as a given. To this tired life, accepted as unquestioned reality, scripture offers another world, another way of being, that is both unsettling and comforting as it stands in prophetic judgment over the empires of the world. Scripture, in other words, is counter-imagination, a “rival eschatology,” as N. T. Wright puts it, to any system that claims “we have now arrived.” Empires do not like the promise of scripture because promise implies the the present is inadequate. Counter-imagination makes empires nervous. Scripture itself demonstrates the clash of empires. Israel’s deliverance from Egypt takes the Israelites from a world of slavery to Pharaoh, where all they do is never enough and they are enslaved to producing “banks” (storehouses) where the king of that empire can keep his excess wealth. God delivers Israel to a world where their God is not a task master but a deliverer and where their world is not defined by “commodities” but by “fidelities” (i.e., the covenant).

3 things that made me happy today

1. going to church and being encouraged to engage in life 2. Seeing the holman's! 3. Going to lunch with Becky and Isaac

Truths I believe about myself

1. There is something wrong with me 2. there is no connection from when I work hard and success 3. I am not living the life I want to live

three things that make me happy 6/29

1. Meeting my new doctor at farm workers 2. Not having the power out at our house when it was out in most of yakima 3. Finally feeling better after over a week of illness

dinner readings

I read from Earnest Hemmingway "A natural history of the dead" and "cross country snow" Stacy read from Pedagogy of the oppressed and "early exposure leads to reductions in egg alergies Soletta free styled a lot of grunts

Vincent moon

Vincent Moon's most autobiographical book, until his last, was the book "Soul of the Fox". It is a book about an author who cuts out his own tongue so he wont be distracted to write.

Names I like

I really like the name fox house, and the league of women shoppers

Depression as preparation

When I am old and gray and dying I hope I will be able to look back at this time of my life for preparation for what is next. I have felt a darkness that is slow, and quiet and moving at the same time that brings me closer to death.

happy 5/24

1. soletta marisol 2. Naomi Wachira 3. Breakfast at sweatbeas with kanzlers

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Prayer is noticing, and often labeling, the worship already happening around you.