After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
They see Jesus differently. Not as they usually know him. And they see him with the greatest prophetic figures in Israel's history—Moses and Elijah. Peter's response is to want to build tents, to commemorate, to make the moment permanent. But the voice from the cloud says: 'Listen to him.' Focus on listening, not on building shrines to past moments.
I think about the spiritual highs, the moments of clarity and presence. I want to preserve them, memorialize them, build something that holds the experience. But Jesus keeps calling me forward. The mountain is real. But it's not the destination. It's a clarification that allows you to descend and do the harder work in the valley.
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