Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement, and I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hi everyone, I promised you last week that I was going to be having a whole series of friends

to interview about Advent and I'm absolutely delighted today to introduce you to my friend,

poet and academic, a musician. His name is Malcolm Geight. Hi Malcolm. Hi, I'm very glad to be here

and glad to join your listeners and followers over this as well. I know you're going to have such a

delightful time today. We are actually sitting in Cambridge and in the college where Malcolm has taught

and where we met him, but I met him many years ago when we were at a CS Lewis conference and I

believe it might have been an Oxford. We had got been in, I'm sorry, it was an Oxford for a

week in the Cambridge. It's right now. And we were walking to the place where he was going to speak

and he drove up on this big motorcycle and a black leather jacket. And I remember thinking,

oh my goodness, who is this man? And then he mesmerized us. It was just wonderful to hear his

reading and him speaking. And so we've been friends through the years and my kids just think he's

the most amazing person in the world. But I especially want to introduce you today to what he does.

He's a wonderful poet, but very articulate and so many different ideas. But you know that our

whole family cares deeply about the whole area of imagination and what part that takes place

in our lives. So how would you communicate why imagination is important? Well, I would say that

we have God's given us all kinds of capacities with which to come to the truth, just like he's given us

different sense organs. So you know, when a bird is singing, your ears are telling you one part of

what's happening and your eyes are telling you another, you've got both, you get to get that whole

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