A Note from Me
I used to think conversion was a single moment. I prayed a prayer, walked an aisle, marked a date in my Bible. That was it—I was converted. But the longer I apprentice myself to Jesus, the more I see that all of my life is just one giant conversion. Every moment is an opportunity to turn, more and more to God, to be made a little bit more into his loving likeness.
These conversions are quiet, hidden, like roots inching along in the dark. Sometimes it looks like:
- An irritation that exposes my impatience
- A loss that teaches me to let go
- A joy that reminds me life is gift
I can’t manage or control any of this. It’s what God does. Conversion is his work, his grace, his way of slowly and steadily showing me how to love like Christ. My part is both hard and simple: pay attention, participate, say yes, keep turning. See every day as part of one long conversion, every moment as a chance to be remade into love.
Because that’s really what time is for: learning to love like God loves.
A Voice from the Tradition
“...I no longer conceive of God’s grace as a bolt of lightning which strikes our lives in a clearly miraculous fashion. To those who have experienced conversion, it may seem rather like a miracle. But the miracle has taken place not through any one inexplicable event, but rather through a succession of events, all leading in a single direction. It is the collective experience of those events which assumes a miraculous character for the convert.
—Emilie Griffin, Turning
A Question to Carry
What small conversion might be unfolding in your daily life?
Keep turning,
—Jon
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