The Transfiguration Of Our Lord
Personal Reflections For Pastors On The Lectionary Readings
Mark 9:2-9
I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like to be Jesus' disciples: at one moment to be growing leaps and bounds in one's knowledge and faith from sitting under his teaching, and at other times be totally confused and full of doubts. Even harder to imagine is to have been one of his inner core of disciples -- Peter, James, or John -- and be taken on this privileged, mountaintop experience where they witnessed the transfiguration of their Lord. Is it any wonder they were terrified?