By Jonathan Camiolo

 

I just joined a new gym.  Every time I see an advertisement for a gym, exercise machine or diet plan, I start to feel like I need to get in shape.  I get motivated for a little while and then I relax again and get lazy.  The shape of my body is hard to change if I don’t actually make a dramatic diet and workout change and work hard at it.  I have to work so hard to lose wait and tone up that I can easily get discouraged.  We are sold on these gyms and fitness routines because they tell us that our lives and bodies can be transformed in weeks or even faster.  Usually it takes a long time and a lot of perseverance.

 

What is cool about the gospel this week is that Jesus is “transfigured”.  In an instant He looks totally different and His clothes became a dazzling white and He looked like a heavenly being.  By the power of God, He was transfigured and the faith of the disciples was strengthened.  I don’t know about you, but I sure could go for a transfiguration.  I would love to have a dramatic change in an instant, one that others around me could notice and think was heavenly.  

 

Well, what is similar to that is called conversion.  Sometimes, in what seems like an instant, lives are transformed by the power of God through the Holy Spirit.  Actually, it happens often.  We can focus during Lent on disciplines and habits and transformation that takes effort and perseverance, but maybe we can ask God to work in an amazing way for us too!  Maybe we can ask God to help us have a deeper conversion and that we might be “transfigured” in a sense this Lenten season so that others will see a bit of the eternal and heavenly in us when the Easter season comes.  Lets pray for the amazing, and keep working at the changes.  

 

Think. Pray.  Decide. Change.

 

GOD LOVES YOU…Pray for me and know that I am praying for you!