Christ Jesus, help my mountain top experiences empower me to bring your glory into the world…

Mark 9:2-10

 
As holy and wonder-full as our mountain top experiences are, they are primarily meant to encourage and empower us interiorly and are not given to us for purposes of fame or success, or even to become ‘a good story’ worthy of becoming a movie. These pinnacle experiences are life-giving because they empower us to love and to be loved by God when we are shoulder to shoulder with the warts and wrinkles of humanity, down in the communities and the market places of the world. So it was that Jesus counseled his three faithful disciples on the way down from the glorious experience of the Transfiguration to keep what they had seen and heard to themselves until after he had risen again from death.  The day of the Transfiguration they could not comprehend how their glorious Lord could ever die, particularly in the not too distant future. But it seems that they did keep their mouths shut – and that the experience of the Transfiguration of Jesus became part of what interiorly compelled them to fearlessly lead the early Church through the first century of is lively and persecuted history. We can be thankful that Peter, James and John told their treasured story to give us, as Jesus’ disciples today, a glimpse of what it meant to be in close communion with the Beloved Son of the Ancient of Days. What will I do with my mountain top experiences – cast them as pearls before swine to gain fame, fortune and success, or guard them in the secret recesses of my heart to inform my journey on earth?  Christ Jesus, help my mountain top experiences empower me to bring your glory into the world.   
                                                                                                                   
We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. (2 Peter 1:16 )
 
Just as it is better to illuminate than to shine, it is greater to pass on the fruits of contemplation to others than just to contemplate.
St. Thomas Aquinas
 
A song for summer retreat time … Perhaps Peter, James and John sang this song in his own way as their journeys as disciples of Jesus proceeded….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuGD4KqKLtE  
 
 
Soli ad gloriam
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