Is it the baby or the bathwater?
transformation
I love a good mountaintop experience. It’s a moment when everything changes. Insight flares up in the mind, illuminating the moment, the experience, the problem in a whole new way. You’re never quite the same again. One such moment for me happened in prayer when I was on a three-day silent retreat.
Oprah, by Kathryn Lofton
Until I read Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, I would not have said that I was a connoisseur of the world of O.
As the second Sunday in advent approaches, I find the prophets of the season compelling. To my ears, their message sounds pretty consistent: "Change the ways of this world."