Signs of God’s power to bring new life are all around us.
He was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.
“There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun,” wrote the monk and mystic, Thomas Merton, who on an ordinary day in an unremarkable shopping district in Louisville, had a profound experience of the glory and solidarity of the human family. “It was as if I could suddenly see the secret beauty of their hearts,” he wrote.
In today’s gospel the disciples witness Jesus transfigured. Has he changed or have their eyes been opened to see him as he truly is? Here is an invitation to us to see the world in a new light.
What if we could, like Thomas Merton, suddenly recognise the belovedness of every person? Or if we could see the signs of God’s power to bring new life, just as the digging, weeding and pruning of a patient gardener is rewarded by glimpses of beauty as shoots sprout and buds open?
In this season of Lent, as we seek to listen more deeply to Jesus, may we strive to see to see each person through God’s eyes, recognising the beauty in our sisters and brothers.
Prayer
Glorious God,
we give you thanks
for glimpses of grace,
for your abundant generosity
and for the strength of your love.
May we reflect your glory
as we walk in your way.
Amen.
Act
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