It's the eve of Advent and it feels like Christmas eve to me. Joy and peace are reigning in my heart.
Im not yet the man I want to be. Im not yet the man I need to be. However, Im so happy that, by God's grace, Im not the man I used to be.
I am facing down this Lent like none I have ever faced before. I am approaching it as a purgatory where I fully hope and fully expect to emerge as a totally renewed man. It is not any confidence in myself that gives me such hope but the realization that God desires to renew me as much as I am willing to surrender and be renewed. As much as I am willing to cooperate, He is longing to regenerate.
The biggest change I seek is to become that beatitude man, that blessed peacemaker who prays for my enemies even as they snarl and hiss.
Let them protest that they are the better men. Im going to actually do it because I know God has the power to make it so.
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