How would you describe the new life that comes to a person who totally surrenders to Christ? The writer, Sam Keen, penned some metaphors that speak of the renewal of self. “The process is poetic,” he wrote. It is like:
- a butterfly emerging from a cocoon;
- waking up after a nightmare;
- a television picture coming into focus;
- a bone returning to its socket;
- energy surging up after a long illness;
- shedding an old skin;
- being born again;
- having cataracts removed;
- recess;
- an ember bursting into flame.
—Sam Keen, Beginnings Without End
