Metaphors, Wittgenstein said, have a way of dragging us along. And theologian Leonard Sweet speaks of divine authority in the Bible being found in its stories and metaphors, not merely word-for-word. But what happens when the pattern of a particular metaphor is stripped out of sacred literature? What happens when you bring it back?

Pull a camping chair out into the field with us and let the fresh dawn of light, reveal, sleep, and rise up warm your spiritual imagination to new life.

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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