Transformers

I was having a talk with my oldest grandson this past weekend. He's 8 and I was trying to impress him with my knowledge of the Transformer movies and it's characters. Oh, by the way I love those movies! Anyway, this was just one way of me trying find ways to connect with him and when I had finished talking he began to rattle of the names of various Transformers I had never heard of and then he told just what role they played  in the different movies. Wow, was I way out of my league!
        Then today with the long Thanksgiving weekend behind me, I found myself on Monday morning in our sanctuary in prayer, as is my custom. And when I finished I looked around the church and saw an entirely different transformation in process going on all around me. The Thanksgiving decorations were down and strewn all over the front of the church and right beside them awaiting to bring new life to the Altar area and the rest of the Church were Christmas decorations, anxiously awaiting to be put into place. It was an Altar in limbo. But then that is what Advent is as well. A time of Transformation, of not just our churches and homes, but even more so, a transformation of our hearts and souls as God the Father sends to one and all His Child, the Christ, born anew once again in our hearts. Where there He takes my tired and weary life and He interjects renewal, He turns our doubts into renewed hope. He takes our pain and softens it with the coo of a baby.
      By the time Sunday rolls around the Church will look much different. It will have been Transformed. But then comes Advent our Transformation into the children of God that our Father longs to see. I am not there yet. Right now I feel a bit like "Bumble Bee", my shine is going on! I'm anxious to go as fast as I can, but I'm a little bit clumsy yet, and at times hard to understand! But then I am still in Transformation mode!
   Love Ya' All Rick Koch Dutchtown Church