"When the vision fades and Jesus returns to them, Peter talks of building three shelters on the mountaintop and all remaining there. He wants to hold on to the “high” of revelation, to grasp it with his hands and not let it go. But Jesus leads them down the mountain and into the valley again. It is as if to say God is there in the low places as well, in the ordinary day to day of our lives. Even so, we carry the memory, the blessed assurance after we have transfiguring experiences. Sometimes our collisions with God are the very encounters that save us and keep us alive. But Jesus leads us, is always ahead of us, elusive, not always visible or comprehensible, not always easy to see. So to follow him we must at all times be awake, alert, always looking for him, looking to him to find our way, because he is our way." (From a sermon from the Society of Saint John the Evangelist.)
To read the complete sermon go to: http://ssje.org/ssje/2013/08/06/from-the-archive-christs-transfiguration-and-ours-br-eldridge-pendleton/#more-8223
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