We can launch a car toward the sun and that is dazzling to our eyes. But in the infinite reaches of the universe it is a movement so small as to be imperceptible.
It is something like this, something on this scale, that we meet today on this Feast of the Transfiguration, in the face of Jesus Christ.
“And he was transfigured before them, and his face did shine like the sun.” In his face, our light. For the glory of God, the love of God, the life and salvation of God walks now in the times and places of darkness with us. This moment of Jesus’ transfiguration is the moment of our hope.
This is our hope. For we who were so far from the glory of God, we from whom God’s glory was veiled, covered over by cloud and judgement dread; we all now with unveiled face gaze as if in a mirror on the glory of God. In Christ Jesus, we gaze upon it.
This is what glory looks like. It is the hand stretched out. It is the life that suffers with and for the other. This is the place where life’s light is found.
