Transformers (more than meets the eye)

Transformers-my son saw the movie....sat through the entire 3 hours, and came home with his eyes the size of silver dollars, proclaiming that he had just seen the BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

Our church is doing a series on "Transforming Your Life" and it has me spending more than a little time contemplating such things. I have realized that everyone (not jut my son and his peers) are obsessed with Transformers. (My pastor, Robb, is obsessed with them too....but he also hears voices...I'm just saying.)

What is it about transformation that has our society so well....transfixed. Look at the reality shows. Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Extreme Makeover. What Not To Wear. 10 Years Younger and more. The idea that someone can take our poor pitiful selves (or poor pitiful homes) and turn them into something amazing, beautiful, younger looking, or brand new, invigorates us and quite frankly, I think, gives us hope. None of us (least of all myself) want to face the thought that we have come as far as we are going to, that we are done growing and changing or that this (right now right here) is all there is. So we see the transformations that are possible and hope that we too might be transformed. I would contend, however, that the transformation that we are all so obsessed with is actually caused by a much deeper need. The need for inner transformation. The need to know their is something greater than poor pitiful me and the mistakes I constantly make. The need for fulfillment and love and well.....peace.

As I have listened to the teaching on Transformation one thing has become abundantly clear. I am going to be transformed....the question is who or what am I going to let do the transforming.