It's always there

Not too long ago I attended a concert where a particularly wonderful Requiem was played. The audience was one of those appreciative crowds that stays seated and silent for a few moments afterwards...waiting for the last tone of the last instrument to evaporate. Then the ovation...

I knew one of the musicians in the orchestra. I approached him in the pit and commented to him how glorious and captivating the piece was. He looked up into the now silent space of the hall and said, gently, but with clear conviction: "It is always out there, you know... It is just that we don't always hear it.

In the same way, all of the glorious light that Christ embodied and that spilled outward from His being at the moment of the Transfiguration was a manifestation of the immense glory and timelessness that He was, and is and always will be. Nothing was "added to" Jesus to make him radiate such light. It was as if the limits of Christ's flesh dissolved for a time....and God in Christ was perceived by the mortal eyes of the witnesses. They SAW the light of the divine that was always there.

When Jesus was walking down a dusty road, or eating a simple meal, or sitting having gentle converation with His friends, the divine presence was contained in His Flesh. And Christ is with us now, through the Holy Spirit, manifesting God, companioning us and counselling us according to God's Will.

Jesus translates divine meaning and purpose to us. In Christ the magnificent light of God reaches out to us in Love and Power, enfolding us in safety in the presence of its immensity. Because He became incarnate, we can "see" God.

In Christ God's glory is always there ....it is just that we don't always notice it.