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Path to Transfiguration: Embracing Peace and Transformation

Explore the spirituality of transformation through suffering, interdependence, and contemplation towards a transfigured world. Redemptive insights on embracing trials, fostering unity, and holding onto hope.

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Path to Transfiguration: Embracing Peace and Transformation

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  1. AMAHORO ‘09 AMAHORO PEACE PAIX SHALOM AMANI SALAM PAZ KHOTSO UKUTHULA

  2. ‘Nothing, no one, and no situation is ‘untransfigurable,’ that the whole of Creation, nature, waits expectantly for its transfiguration… when it will be translucent with divine glory.’

  3. Batwa Village

  4. Moments of transfiguration set us on a trajectory of transformation toward the ultimate transfiguration of God’s beloved world.

  5. Fostering Searching Comforting Facilitating Fighting ignorance Digging Extending Nurturing Dismantling

  6. How have we been sustained thus far and how will we find nourishment in the season to come? What are the spiritual resources that will fund our transforming endeavors?

  7. ‘spirituality’ is ‘a word that somehow captures the idea of a viable, sustainable, meaningful way of life.’

  8. 1 - The spirituality of transformation has a redemptive understanding of suffering

  9. embitter us or ennoble us

  10. “When we are able to see the larger purpose of our suffering, it is transformed, transmuted. It becomes redemptive suffering.”

  11. “pain, if not transformed, will be transmitted.”

  12. “It seems that in this universe redemption of any kind happens only through some form of suffering.”

  13. 2 - The spirituality of transformation has UBUNTU as the foundational understanding of people

  14. ‘We are set in a delicate network of interdependence with our fellow human beings and all of creation”

  15. “But if you are to be true partners with God in the transfiguration of His world and help bring this triumph of love over hatred… you must begin by understanding that as much as God loves you, God equally loves your enemies.”

  16. 3 – The spirituality of transformation has a contemplative posture toward God.

  17. “So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained but it can be felt and suffered … we, along with Jesus, agree to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.” Richard Rohr

  18. The spirituality of transformation is a way of life that embraces suffering, knows it to be ultimately redemptive, and in stillness finds the resources to hold it until it is transfigured.

  19. Matthew 16: 21 - 22 “From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord! This shall never happen to you!”

  20. Matthew 17: 1 & 2 “And six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James and John… high up on a mountain. There he was transfigured before them.”

  21. 2 Peter 1:18 “we were eye witnesses to His majesty… we were with Him on the holy mountain.”

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