Reflection
Jesus took Peter, James and John
and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves
and he was transfigured before them.
Mark 9:2-10
In mythic tradition, the mountain is the place where earth touches sky. Its summit enters the sphere of eternity and its base is in the mortal world. At the mountain top, the divine reveals itself and the human is transformed .But, as Joan Chittister reminds us “Real religion is not about transcending life; real religion is about transforming life.” God never meant us to live on the mountaintop. We may experience God on the mountain top but more often in the valleys. God is with us in the plain, ordinariness of life where we live every day. We need not climb the mountains to find God. We live always in God’s presence. The thing to do is to become aware.
Prayer
They who seek God will see God’s face everywhere.
Psalm 24
Action
Try to be open to the places in your life where God is revealed.
Suggested Reading
Jesus took Peter, James, and John
and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,
and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
“Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents:
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;
from the cloud came a voice,
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.
Mark 9:2-1
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time.
Thomas Merton
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
To be is to live with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.
M. Street
Without the assistance of the Divine Being … I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate source of all that is, the support and well of being, is Ultimate Generosity. All being comes forth and shines, glimmers and glistens, because the root reality of the universe is generosity of being.
Brian Swimme