It’s a “new year”…so a good a time as any for trying something new.  I can too easily get stuck inside my own head, with familiar soundtracks playing and the never-ending over-anaylysis.  I’d like to take a break from that and I’m reminded that once the words come out there’s a little more space – the crazy monsters deflate (though most of the time don’t completely disappear, but I’ll take smaller) and I feel like I can maybe wriggle free.  So, please pardon the self indulgence, but this is my space to look at my life, and it’s gotta start where I’m at though hopefully it’ll grow and expand.

And so it happens…I’m on this journey of life and I look around and wonder how I got here.  Some things are great, some things are challenging and then there are others that I’m not sure how they got a seat in this vehicle.  As I look at those last guests I have to remind myself that I’m a work in progress, a not yet become, and that the becoming will continue as long as I have faith and keep moving.

Recently I had to stop and look hard at those unwelcome guests – they were bringing me down and stealing the joy from the journey.  They were never happy with where we were, always looked for the worst in people and were no fun to have around.  But I couldn’t seem to shake them…apparently I’d invited them along at SOME point in time.  So I stopped and asked for help.  I had to – they’d started to affect those around me that I love.

It’s only been a first step, and at times it doesn’t seem like it’s taken me very far, but I remind myself today that it is a step, which is the only way to start moving.  And the title for this blog came out of one of the first sessions I had – beautifully transformed – that seems like such a glorious, safe, wonderful place.  And, by the grace of God and doing my own work too, I hope to arrive there…at the place where I am being transformed.  It’s a journey, a process and this day is a chance to participate in it.