Greetings. I do hope your week has started out well.
Conversion. This is a word we have heard used in many ways. It is a word that from the Latin means ‘turn around.’, transform.’ We have seen this word use in professional circumstances where a person has to take on a particular professional demeaner, say like a medical doctor and their “bed-side manner”
But he here this word used more often in relationship to a religious context where a person has been required to take on a different attitude toward society and those they meet.
David A. Bednar from the Church of Latter-Day Saints tells us, “For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon preempt, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.”
The act of conversion, no matter in which context it may be, does not happen overnight. True conversion is a discission one makes upon getting out of bed in the morning and ready to work on as they take their rest at night.
It may be good to keep in mind that when we stand before the Lord, we will not be judged on how far we have gone on the road of perfection, but rather, and most important, on how HARD we have tried.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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