Well of Course "The Daily Selectionary" is a play on words
The Bible. Mystifying is its words. Confusing at its worst and inspiring at its best. Beautiful. Hideous! Loving and condemning both the same. It is the very source of my self-loathing, yet it is the source of my self-acceptance. Incomplete to some, finite to many. The truth. Fiction. Whatever it is, the existence of it pulls me into its pages. Reluctantly. Willfully.
The Daily Selectionary is my attempt to follow a pattern of daily readings led by the Revised Common Lectionary and to engage myself in a dialogue of questions and possible affirmations. These devotions are not scholarly dissertations. My thoughts on the selections may not be anywhere close to what the actual intent of the scriptures mean. They may speak something to me one day and my temperament toward the passage may change that very evening.
I simply enjoy the flowery and brambly pathways down which scripture can lead my creativity. The archaic vastness feeds my imagination and sparks some rather diverse plays performing on my cerebral stage. I am a fiction writer and I mash up words to create poetry. The Bible contains in it for me a world that leaves all possibilities open. Pondering scripture through my writing is a meditation. It is only fitting for me to explore the many facets of generations of being and to do it creatively. Like, I could tell a story from the perspective of a parasite on one of the ribs inside that big fish that swallowed Jonah. Okay. Maybe not. Hey! I could do it. I won't. Promise.
Maybe.
I invite you to take the journey with me and to add your own thoughts. Let us start that dialogue.
Warmest regards,
Christopher
The Daily Selectionary is my attempt to follow a pattern of daily readings led by the Revised Common Lectionary and to engage myself in a dialogue of questions and possible affirmations. These devotions are not scholarly dissertations. My thoughts on the selections may not be anywhere close to what the actual intent of the scriptures mean. They may speak something to me one day and my temperament toward the passage may change that very evening.
I simply enjoy the flowery and brambly pathways down which scripture can lead my creativity. The archaic vastness feeds my imagination and sparks some rather diverse plays performing on my cerebral stage. I am a fiction writer and I mash up words to create poetry. The Bible contains in it for me a world that leaves all possibilities open. Pondering scripture through my writing is a meditation. It is only fitting for me to explore the many facets of generations of being and to do it creatively. Like, I could tell a story from the perspective of a parasite on one of the ribs inside that big fish that swallowed Jonah. Okay. Maybe not. Hey! I could do it. I won't. Promise.
Maybe.
I invite you to take the journey with me and to add your own thoughts. Let us start that dialogue.
Warmest regards,
Christopher