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Transformation

Transformation. Week Two of Community Retreat. Transformation. Being real Being open to change Being close to God. Transformation: Being Real. With myself With God. Being real with God.

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Transformation

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  1. Transformation Week Two of Community Retreat

  2. Transformation • Being real • Being open to change • Being close to God

  3. Transformation: Being Real • With myself • With God

  4. Being real with God “If the fact of telling people about your personal misfortunes and describing to them the trials that have assailed you brings some relief to your troubles, as though a refreshing breeze were breathing through the words, how much more, if your share your soul's troubles with your Lord, will you find plentiful consolation and comfort! Indeed, people often find it hard to bear with those who come to them moaning and weeping; they turn them away and repulse them. But God does not act like this. To the contrary, he makes you come to him and draws you to himself. And even if you spend all day showing him your sorrows, he will only be even more disposed to love you and to grant your requests.” Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407), priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church 

  5. Being Open to Change “To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often.”(John Henry Newman) • Change is the most fundamental evidence of life • Growth is impossible without change • Change is inevitable, to change well requires trust in and surrender to the goodness of the God who gave us life.

  6. …to be perfect is to have changed often. He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it. Mark ‪8:27-35

  7. …to be perfect is to have changed often. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. John 12:37

  8. Transformation • Being real with myself and with God • Be open to change • Be close to God

  9. It’s Spring! Plant some seeds What is God asking you to plant this spring? • Take a struggle to him and plant it in the warm, dark soil of prayer. • Make some small and seemingly insignificant change in your life. You can only plant it - God brings life out of it

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