What is transformation?When does it take place? How does it look?
Our most mundane experiences can be transformed. There is no experience, no place or space which God cannot touch and change.
We often suffer through our days. Often we despair, caught up in a deadly, bleak routine, so to speak gasping for breath. The pace is tough, the outlook not promising. There is an inner tiredness. We dread the next day, the next week, what is waiting for us.
The mystic would say to those caught up in this tiring and tired lifestyle: find God in this deadly, depressive drudge.
This search for God in our lives practically means to search for a place of rest, to seek green pastures where one can lay down in quietness.
Literally it could mean to withdraw, to go somewhere to a place of separation, a quiet room where one can pray, where one can find peace, where one can have a quiet time of meditation and reflection.
Or, even more simple, it could simply mean to close one's eyes, or to look out of the window, or to glance up at the sky to think of God, just for that one short, brief moment of meditation, asking God to take the drudge, sanctify it and anchor one’s heart to inner peace.
Just that one fleeting moment of moving with my soul out of and away from the drudge.
It will not remove our drudge or rid us from it. But it will empower us to find the rest and quietness that we need to live life fully, meaningfully as we live through our drudging days.
It is that one moment of inhaling fresh, life-giving spiritual air, of opening oneself to the Holy Spirit in order to be sanctified - especially in our darkest despair.
This is one example of transformation.
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