Transfigured

Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration here in Australia. There is so many aspects to break open in that narrative. The divinity of Jesus, revealed. God’s presence – yet again encountered up a mountain. Scripture fulfilled in the presence of Moses (Law) and Elijah (Prophets). The simple humanity of Peter, trying to hold inContinue reading “Transfigured”

The Light we don’t get to keep

Lent is honest about timing. It hands us the Transfiguration not as a glittering detour from the hard road, but as a lamp lit on the hard road. Every year, in Lent, the Church insists we climb this mountain with Jesus and then come back down again. We do not get to choose only theContinue reading “The Light we don’t get to keep”