I’m reading Bob Goff’s new book, Everybody Always, and he keeps coming back to this phrase “becoming love.”

Remember philosophy class, and the statement that God is pure being? We have being, from him, but we are in process, we are becoming. And this process, spiritual formation, is either making us more like him (love) or less like him.

Colossians 1:27 tells us that we have Christ in us, the hope of glory. Love in us, joyful, confident and full of expectation, transforming us into love as well. When I see myself and my life thru this filter, it’s easier to take in stride or make sense of some of the really hard things in my life. He’s working all things for good, teaching me how to love and shaping me into love itself.