Transfiguration

Transfiguration

What is the Transfiguration? A revelation of divine glory or fantastic moment of personal insight? Why not both! Do we have to go up a mountain to see God’s glory? It’s a great place, but so is a forest, an ocean, a natural wonder or any beautiful sight. We can experience a transfiguration in a beautiful painting, a paragraph from a book, a conversation, or in a simple detail on a street corner. Suddenly, what we imagined becomes a choice in reality. In an instant we go from a doomed relationship to the possibility of deepening one. We can go from doubt to faith. We may feel boredom or depression, then we see a cloud open and a ray of hopeful light pierces the darkness. Transfiguration, it would seem, is right in front of us – at least for those with eyes to see it.