TRANSFORMED
When you speak on I John 3 (We shall be changed) you might use the analogy of the popcorn popper. The kernels are cooking away in the hot oil, complaining of the heat, but the wise old popper knows that even by means of the painful process the kernels will be transformed from something small and hard to something expansive and glorious by comparison. They will fill the popper with their transformed reality. They will be changed radically beyond all recognition. They will find a new beauty and a new usefulness they could not imagine. And, of course, there’s always that classic conversation between two caterpillers who look up at a butterfly and one says “You’ll never get me up into one of those!”
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