TRANSFIGURATION
The Working Preacher sermon brainwave podcast was pretty dang good this week. Willimon sat in with the usual suspects. Good banter. Some great insights. Willimon made the nice point - that - in some ways - to ask what this story “means” is the wrong question.
I am struck by the fact that so often this text gets read as “you can’t stay up on the mountain” sort of deal. But, interestingly, the experience on the mountain is not all that clear. What the heck does it mean?
Nobody knows. . .
It is - however - sorta cool - sorta odd.
I’ve preached a variation of “can’t stay up on the mountain top. It is that Jesus makes all of life holy - all of life lived in the presence and wonder of God and God’s life giving grace.
I think of the song by Peter Mayer - Holy Now
you can listen on youtube.
HOLY NOW by Peter Mayer
(there’s this really nice jazz version by some funky singer. . .)
The song opens with this verse
When I was a boy each week
On Sunday we would go to church
And pay attention to the priest
He would read the holy word
And consecrate the holy bread
And everyone would kneel and bow
Today the only difference is
Everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now
Indeed, everything is holy. (Except for all the evil things that aren’t holy, I guess...)
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