The Good News is that God changes us into something beautiful – something remarkable. Even as a caterpillar is changed into a gorgeous butterfly so God transforms us into the image of his beloved Son. We don’t deserve it. But he does it out of love. It is a work that happens from within by the activity of the Holy Spirit – (layer by layer the old self is removed and replaced by the new self of Jesus’ transformative love.) Pentecost is a celebration of this metamorphosis – old into new, from one degree of glory to another.
