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The face and body of Jesus shone with blinding white light when he was transfigured (Luke
9:28b-36) on Mount Tabor in light and glory. His special friends did not understand at
the time, but later under the influence of the Holy Spirit, they began to notice the
divine light within themselves as well. How wonderful to sense that there is something
luminous, deep inside, that is secretly budding, flowering, and bearing fruit. Fruit in myself
and in the world. We are being prepared for transfiguration.
Will I be a wise gardener tending our fruit-tree (or like a midwife for the holy birth) - or
will be insensitive, resisting this amazing process?
Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: “The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from
the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the
common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.”
What am I assenting to? The jewel - the seed - or else the trivial and temporary?
Jesus the living Christ is waiting to help.