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(Preparing for Sunday Feb 10)
The last time I had one of those mountain top experiences I said to myself, “I am going to stay here; this is where I want to live!” Well, I knew I couldn’t stay there, so I thought I’d try to take the experience with me back into the real world. That lasted about a week. It is hard to duplicate in the valley what happens on the mountain tops. But I still remember a number of those powerful experiences. I carry them with me. Many of them have really changed me for the better. Some of them actually help me in discerning my path ahead.
What actually seems to be happening is that going back into the valley of everyday life with the vision of the mountain top invites me to think about my path along the way, and slowly and I guess imperceptibly, things begin to change. Some of those mountain tops I don’t remember so clearly these days. But I remember that they happened. I remember what they meant to me. I remember what I thought about what was important to me then.
They are all still with me, for they have helped to bring me to where I am in life.
Perhaps these transfiguring events are caught up in my everyday life in ways I’m not completely clear about. Perhaps they are awakened or stirred with me as I read the scriptures, as I go to church and as I help others along the way. Maybe they have an accumulative affect in shaping who I will become.
Perhaps Jesus’ transfiguration and our mountain top experiences with him help us make sense of the cross and our struggles in life and have a way of bringing us through to the place where God plans to meet us face to face.
Perhaps these experiences really do point the way to who we are becoming.
Pastor Mitch