Eight days later (don’t you hate days like that?)
After Mr. Rock, aka Simon/Peter, called
Jesus the Christ (got that right)
Jesus took him and the thunder boys (James and John)
Up the mountain to check out the view, aka pray
And while he was praying
(see what can happen when you pray?)
Jesus’ face changed, his clothes dazzled white
Moses and Elijah appeared (I presume from somewhere)
They appeared in glory
They saw his glory
Glory meeting glory: alleluia
Peter and his companions (afraid to list John and James twice?)
Weighed down with sleep (depression was always around)
However, they saw his glory and the two men with him
Not sure if they saw their glory
Did they see their glory?
either way: alleluia
As they were leaving (always pay attention to what people say when they are leaving):
Let us make three dwellings
Then a cloud, then an overshadowing, then terror, then an entering (ooooo)
Then a voice:
This is my Son, my Chosen, Listen to him
If you are not listening after all this then…
Jesus was found alone by the lost disciples
They kept silent and told no one

Man, the things that happened in those days…

The Christian Life: wonder if there is any way of faking it? Do you think people set out to fake the Christian life deliberately? DO you think it is nature or nurture? Are some people just genuinely cool, good, holy, peaceful, calm and ethical? Are some people just depressed, prone to lines, prone to cheating, prone to deceptive actions, cynical, disturbed and or evil? By the way remember the words of Jesus (and the reversals in Luke: rich/poor; first/last; lost/found -- life is never what we see on the inside or outside).

Funny, the hardest place to work these days is in a church. Good Lord. I meet so many parishioners, clergy, and volunteers who have had it: about to quit or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. “It is like a jungle sometimes, makes you wonder how I keep from going under.”
This is life and the Christian life is no different. People feel like this in every time and place – I am not making this up. LOL.

Viagra: I know I have your attention with this one. I get ten email offers for this every day. And talking to a nun friend of mine the other day, she also gets them and various other offers to become “larger than life.” And Viagra offers are only outdone by “pain killers”. Is it that hard out there? I mean – oh dear? LOL. 

Spandex: Yes, these days you can have the body you want. There is a whole market now of spandex clothing for men. We all can look firm, look fit, look buffed, look developed, look sexy, look dazzling (white?) – just don’t ever take off your clothes. There was a woman in my sponsoring parish in Massachusetts who used to say of her female neighbors, “She has gone to lump!” I should have said, “Spandex offers salvation.”

Transfiguration: It happened at prayer or after prayer or during prayer. It happened before the disciples fell asleep or maybe it prevented them from falling asleep. And then it was accompanied by the voice of God. Maybe the transfiguration happened while Jesus was being himself or maybe it was just what was needed for him to be himself.

Luckily, we have high grain cereals, vitamins, bottled water, television, drugs (legal, prescribed, illegal and homeopathic), we have plastic surgery, body surgery, spandex, Viagra and when all else fails we have the church and the Christian life. Go transfigure yourself (in and or out).