If God is getting a makeover in such a way that directly relates to our becoming, then how do we want to remake ourselves? Sometimes when we are in the culture or in our own bodies, it’s hard to see how we need to be remade. As our awareness increases, so does our reactivity…because increasing awareness is painful. It forces us to look at our shadows, some of which Bill talked about last Sunday. Awareness reveals what we do not want to see, and part of our becoming is learning to love even what we do not want to see. Maybe especially what we do not want to see.

I love James Baldwin’s essay “The Creative Process,” and this quote from it feels appropriate:

“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”

What needs to be revealed about ourselves to ourselves so that we can grow in freedom and love? So that we can make God over?

Thanks for listening. We are happy to be back!