The Period of "Great Transformations"

"Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit" Ezekiel 18:31

So began a period of "great transformations" in our lives. We couldn't think the same way, do what we'd done before, speak the words we'd allowed ourselves to say before. Within us raged an unknown process of transformation that awakened a completely new attitude toward life. The feeling was as if the change was happening at a chemical level. It wasn't instantaneous; the process was constant and creative. Our speech began to change, cleansing itself of habitual parasitic words and profane expressions prevalent in "bohemian" circles. Our behavior and attitude toward each other changed. From somewhere deep in our hearts rose an inextinguishable desire to purify ourselves, to become better.

This wasn't a campaign that would end once certain results were achieved. The processes happening to us didn't stop; they were constant and creative. Gradually, our friends and acquaintances began to notice that something was happening with us and wondered what had happened, where these changes came from. When we tried to explain what had occurred, some nodded sympathetically, while others, behind our backs, quietly made the gesture of twirling their finger at their temple. When we asked them not to swear with profanities in our presence, our companions said with surprise that before, it didn't bother us at all.

Even we ourselves were sometimes amazed at where this desire came from to become purer, better. This estrangement from friends and acquaintances couldn't go unnoticed; the atmosphere around us became so heated that one day we realized we couldn't work on stage anymore. We left that work and gave our lives completely into God's hands. And He, as always, was faithful and didn't let us regret this decision.