FRIDAY, August 6 The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Luke 9:28-36. They saw his glory…Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here.”

Like Peter, James, and John, we too have our “mountain-top moments,” and the glory of them often stays with us to sustain us when the going gets rough. For some it may be church-related, the memory of their first communion, the breathless hush of the early-morning stillness broken only by the warm, wonderful words of worship. For others it may be some spectacle of nature, perhaps a summer sunset, or the snow-capped Tetons, perfectly reflected in the mirror of Jackson Lake. For still others it may be the moment they first understood, with a flash of almost divine intuition, the meaning of love. So we garden-variety mortals are given our lesser transfigurations, those glimpses of unearthly beauty when we know with a certainty beyond all argument that we stand in the presence of something infinitely greater than ourselves.

Like the apostles, we also must descend again into the valley of dull, daily routine, the valley of decision where choices must be made and their results lived with, even the valley of the shadow of death.

Jesus came down from the mountain with the apostles, and he walks in the valley with us. (1978)

PRAY for the Convocation of American Churches in Europe (Province II, USA)

Ps 99 or 99:5-9; Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Peter 1:13-21

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