Sunday, January 4, 2026

Dear God,

The words that keep coming to me this morning are change, conversion and transformation.  They are words for the whole human race but especially for me this morning.  I need to be converted, changed and transformed.  And there is only two who can do that.  You and I, O God, you and I.  I can't do it alone and neither can you.  We have to work together.

I remember a vision I had many years ago.  The scene was one in which God and I were talking.  God invited me to go to the grocery story with him.  I said yes.  When we stepped into the door, God invited me to take a cart and move to the first aisle.  As we turned and I looked at the shelves, I saw the word conversion.  Puzzled, I asked if I could put that in my cart.  God said yes.  As I dragged it down off the shelf and into the cart, I noticed that judgement was already in my cart.  I asked if I could replace it and put it up on the shelf.  He said yes and I did so.  All throughout the store I filled my cart and emptied it at the same time.  I selected what I wanted and got rid of what I did not want.  When we went through the checkout, God paid for my items.  God picked up two bags of "groceries" for me and stepped out into the parking lot.  Then he simply said, "Change is just that easy."  I have never forgotten that.

I remembered that because I believe you are telling me I need to make another shift.  A new year, a new month, it makes sense that it would come at the beginning of this new season.  

Convert me,

dear God;

change me.

Transform me

like a 

ball of clay

needing a

new shape.

Make me malleable

in your hands.

And while

you are

reshaping me,

please help reshape

our nation

and our world,

I pray.

Love, Andrea