On the first Sunday of March we celebrate Transfiguration Sunday (see Luke 9:28-36). The Transfiguration is sometimes a hard concept to get our minds around. Our hearts—well that’s a little easier! Many years ago, I was resting on a beach in Rhode Island in the sun watching my two young sons, 3 years old and 8 years old, run gleefully in and out of the shallow waves at the edge of the beach. All of a sudden there was an ethereal glow around them and I felt myself being lifted up into the sun. It only lasted for about half a minute, but it was a life-changing event. In my heart, I heard the voice of Jesus saying “Turn around, you are dying, turn around.” My life at that time had come to a crossroads and this event eventually led me to go to seminary.
No manner of logic can be brought to bear on such a spiritual experience. . .

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