The way of imagination

  Text: Jonah 1; Ps. 69; Gospel of Mark 4.35-41; 5.1-13        Have you ever felt that your life was completely out of control, out of your control?   Have you ever experienced chaos – in your family, in your workplace…in your church?   When relationships fall apart, when we find ourselves working in a toxic environment, when our church becomes a battlefield – these are all instances of chaos wreaking havoc in our lives.   But chaos is not always a bad thing – there’s a saying that goes like this: “Some storms don’t come to destroy you; they come to clear your path”. We could even think of life as a dance between order and chaos.   When things are out of control, and we don’t know which way is up, we need some calm, some peace.   However, when things are too calm, we get stuck , and we are perhaps in need of some chaos to get us moving again in a fruitful direction.      When chaos clears your path. ...