But Jesus also invites us to be transformed, to be transfigured, along with him. As he dies on the cross, in an act of love that declares that connection, that salvation, is worth suffering, he includes us–all of us–in that transfiguring love. He includes us in the power of God to make all things new. And this is the hard and holy work, the call of the Lenten season, that we are about to enter.