Transfiguration on Thabor

 

 

 

What did he see in her,or she see in him,the neighbours asked.Love sees beauty,and common goodness as charm,where reason sees only ordinary drabness.Peter,James and John went to the mountain with Jesus.The experience transformed them.They saw humanity in a new light.Thomas Merton, Trappist monk,lived in solitude.One day,in a large city,he had a similar vision.In a busy street he saw thousands of ordinary people.They were shining like stars of unbelievable beauty.He was overawed by the love of The Compassionate Father, who embraces humanity in its dregs,though tattered and torn.People are God’s delight.Such insight of heart and mind transforms the world.

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