Luke 9:29-36 (The Message)
28-31 About eight days after saying this, he climbed the mountain to pray, taking Peter, John, and James along. While he was in prayer, the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became blinding white. At once two men were there talking with him. They turned out to be Moses and Elijah—and what a glorious appearance they made! They talked over his exodus, the one Jesus was about to complete in Jerusalem.
32-33 Meanwhile, Peter and those with him were slumped over in sleep. When they came to, rubbing their eyes, they saw Jesus in his glory and the two men standing with him. When Moses and Elijah had left, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, this is a great moment! Let’s build three memorials: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He blurted this out without thinking.
34-35 While he was babbling on like this, a light-radiant cloud enveloped them. As they found themselves buried in the cloud, they became deeply aware of God. Then there was a voice out of the cloud: “This is my Son, the Chosen! Listen to him.”
36 When the sound of the voice died away, they saw Jesus there alone. They were speechless. And they continued speechless, said not one thing to anyone during those days of what they had seen.
It was a mystical, spiritual, psychic, weird, crazy, spooky experience; too big, too powerful, too unreal for them to talk about. It couldn’t be communicated with words. Words could not contain it, describe it, pass it on. So they said nothing.
Such moments- holy moments - are not so much to be talked about as lived out. And we all have them if we will only stop and see them.
They also are not to be lived in; we can’t stop the world and just stay in the holy moment. This would make an idol of that experience. Rather they are to be windows through which we see more clearly the road we are to travel and the presence of a loving God for our journey.
"After enlightenment,
the laundry.”
A Zen proverb
Prayer thought: “Thank you Lord, for those moments of enlightenment
which show the way I am to go. And be with me after they are over and I am back to the mundane.”
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