Transformados En Su Imagen El Plan De Dios Para Transformar Tu Vida Spanish Edition Paperback 2003 Author Jim Berg May 2026

Elena noticed first. She found him washing the dishes without being asked. She heard him laugh with Daniel over a video game. One evening, she touched his arm—a simple gesture she had stopped making years ago—and said, “You’re different. Not perfect. But… present.”

The first change was not heroic. It was silent.

Mateo closed his mouth. He breathed. Then he said, quietly, “That’s tough, son. I’ve had days like that. Want to talk about it?” Elena noticed first

Daniel looked up, startled. For a long second, neither moved. Then the boy’s shoulders sagged—not in defeat, but in relief. And they talked. Not about grades, but about fear. About pressure. About the weight of being a teenager who felt invisible.

He thought of the final chapter of Berg’s book: “La gloria de Dios no es que usted sea feliz, sino que usted sea santo. Y la santidad es simplemente amor hecho hábito.” (The glory of God is not that you be happy, but that you be holy. And holiness is simply love made habitual.) One evening, she touched his arm—a simple gesture

Mateo’s hands were shaking again. He set down the chipped coffee mug—the one with the faded baseball logo—and stared at his reflection in the dark kitchen window. He saw a forty-three-year-old man who had stopped believing in transformation a long time ago.

In the quiet, he thanks God—not for the transformation he can see, but for the process he can’t. The old mug still sits on the counter, still chipped. But when Mateo catches his reflection in the kitchen window now, he doesn’t see a broken pot. He sees a vessel still in the Potter’s hands. It was silent

Mateo realized with a shudder: his “plan” had always been to make God a co-signer of Mateo’s comfort. God’s plan was to make Mateo a reflection of His Son—even if that required breaking the old man down.