Life Events Render Us into Someone Different

A Someone We Hadn’t Been Before

While I was praying a few weeks ago, a phrase came to me:

“Rendered by life events. Transformed by Christ. Empowered by the Holy Spirit.”

I began thinking about that word “render” -- a very particular definition of “render” -- to “render fat”. Do you know how to render fat? I don’t know how. Our forefathers and foremothers had to know, if they wanted fat …