Improv Everywhere
My friend Crystal stopped by to visit Sunday night on the way to earning a spot on the lung transplant list (she has cystic fibrosis). She's an amazing young woman. She just graduated from Goshen College and will soon start a job as an accountant in her hometown. Very impressive woman.
Before she headed off to the hospital she decided to give her old friend here a little education in some of the wonders on the internet. She introduced me to the improv everywhere website. They describe what they do as causing "scenes of chaos and joy in public places." Now that was very cool. You'll have to check it out yourself to see what they mean.
But it got me to thinking about how that is a wonderful way to what we are called to witness to in the world -- that is to say -- "chaos and joy in public places." I think of all the chaos Jesus created when he sent a spirit that was troubling a man into a herd of pigs and they went flying off a cliff.
Or I think about the joy that Jesus created when he found the lost sheep, or when he told the story about a king who threw open the doors of the wedding feast to anyone and everyone, or who found a pearl buried in a field (you get the picture).
Chaos and joy in public places. What improv everywhere does is take the normal everyday things and makes us see things just a bit differently -- but simply by using what is already available to us - mostly our imagination. It is seeing with new eyes -- and hearing with new ears.
So...perhaps the Christian life is best summed up by the expression "improv everywhere." Whaddaya think?
Before she headed off to the hospital she decided to give her old friend here a little education in some of the wonders on the internet. She introduced me to the improv everywhere website. They describe what they do as causing "scenes of chaos and joy in public places." Now that was very cool. You'll have to check it out yourself to see what they mean.
But it got me to thinking about how that is a wonderful way to what we are called to witness to in the world -- that is to say -- "chaos and joy in public places." I think of all the chaos Jesus created when he sent a spirit that was troubling a man into a herd of pigs and they went flying off a cliff.
Or I think about the joy that Jesus created when he found the lost sheep, or when he told the story about a king who threw open the doors of the wedding feast to anyone and everyone, or who found a pearl buried in a field (you get the picture).
Chaos and joy in public places. What improv everywhere does is take the normal everyday things and makes us see things just a bit differently -- but simply by using what is already available to us - mostly our imagination. It is seeing with new eyes -- and hearing with new ears.
So...perhaps the Christian life is best summed up by the expression "improv everywhere." Whaddaya think?
posted by Mike Mather at 9:28 PM
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