text: Dear joellen40
  Perhaps it happens one heart at a time with no going back to the violences that were ok last week. Like giving the finger to the guy who cuts in. Or yammering at the tv when a politician gets on my last nerve.  Those acts of violence many wouldn't even name that YET that's where the punch in the nose escalates from followed by a 'nuke 'em til they glow. Today we are asked to contemplate the Transfigured Humanity of Jesus Christ and to search out the reflection of His Transfiguration in our own lives one moment at a time.  Being the change sounds so trite until I face the struggle to live it. 
  
  The reviews and comments take us into judging others for their hardness of heart. What bitternesses have I uprooted from my life? Do I frame people by their race? Who won't I sit next to on a bus or ride alone with in an elevator? 
  We can not hate people we do not fear. The Transfigured Christ takes us beyond our fears, beyond our hate into the heart of love. One heart at a time.