Sunday, March 12, 2017

Seeking Transformation

Winter, at times, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, can be dark, cold, and depressing:  A sunny day from time to time lifts our spirits and helps us through the next series of clouds and storms.  Already on this second Sunday of Lent the liturgy gives us a ray of sunshine, a hope, a promise of things to come. Jesus is transfigured:  "his face shone like the sun and is clothes became white as light."(Mt 17:2)  The three disciples did not quite understand what was happening even when Jesus explained it to them as they descended from the mountain.  Only after the Resurrection, did this vision become clear.  It was a sign to strengthen their faith in view of the passion and death to come.
It serves us the same way and encourages us to hope for our own transformation as well as the transformation of our world, and our universe.  Physically our planet is covered with multiple areas of beauty and, as astronomers probe the universe, vast, immeasurable regions of beauty beyond imagination unfold. What will all this be like when all this is "transfigured"?  What will WE be like? Gone our physical defects, our inner shadows and gloomy distrust, our hesitancy, our paralysis, our keeping under covers our full potential.  May we take some time today to let our imaginations run loose and stir our hearts to hope and the actions which will help bring about this transformation.  Let us make Jesus the center of our universe; he is the one who can make our pipe dreams reality.
Bro. Rene

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