personal transformation cannot be the ultimate goal or it will never be transformative. God must never be a mere enhancement to our self-improvement plan or a ticket to a better life. He is life itself. He must be the goal, the end, the prize. Communion is coming to God for the sake of God: for his beauty, his love, his presence, his joy. But transformation slips in through the backdoor and comes at us sideways. We are changed indirectly by our enjoyment of God.
