TRANSFORMATION

Sister Mary Francis Fletcher

The song, The Grace of Transformation, by Monica Brown, led me to reflect on what we must do to cooperate with God’s grace and move toward transformation.  The song begins:

We are hoping, we are praying,
for the grace of transformation.

O Sacred One, O Gracious One, may our hearts embrace it now.

Late in 2020, I began to read Ted Dunn’s book, Graced Crossroads: Pathways to Deep Change and Transformation.  The book’s preface began with the following quote from Neale Walsch. 

“Yearning for a new way will not produce it.  Only ending the old way can do that.  You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new.  The old will defy the new; the old will deny the new; the old will decry the new.  There is only one way to bring in the new.  You must make room for it.”

How do we make that room?  How do we open the space, to allow the new to grow in us?  Are we willing to do so?  Monica Brown’s song, begins with hoping and praying but, surely, that is not enough.  As I sought resources for myself and for us, somewhere along the way I discovered steps in the Process of Transformation from Angel Carlton.  The process he identifies includes:  realization, release, rebound, reinvention, resurrection and response.........

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