Transformation

This is Martha, writing in Elizabeth's stead. "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen." I see Lent as an opportunity to invite God as "maker" into our lives in a particularly prayerful and focused way. Whatever we are, whatever gifts we have, whatever our frailities and shortcomings, God can "make" something constructive and redemptive of us and through us. God can not only transform us, but through us can effect transformation in others. In Lent, as we reflect on the transformative reality of God acting in human history and await the radical transformation of death into life given to us in the resurrection, we might acknowledge the incredible co- creative power that is resident in us -- power to create good or create evil -- and ask God to " make" us into people who embrace that power and "make" us strong enough to use it in God's name to do God's will in God's creation.