We, too, I believe, have transfiguration moments in our own lives. Those rare times in which we are graced with a depth of
openness and freedom that allows God’s light to shine through us radiantly. A time when we feel a sense of God’s affirmation of who we are. Times when we know we are where we are meant to be.
Those special, graced moments
give us strength for the journey. They remind us of who we are and who we belong to. Often, they are not experiences that we can easily share with anyone else. They touch us indescribably, not easily articulated by the limits of language.
The Transfiguration of Jesus and our own transfiguration moments are an anticipation of what is to come. We go through many changes and transformations in life, some of which are challenging and, at times, painful. But the cost of the transformations along the way is nothing compared with the promise of who we will become in the end.
Here, in this life, we are only given glimpses of what it will be like to be transfigured and fully who we were made and called to be. The Transfiguration, in this sense, is a story of great encouragement. We are consoled and strengthened when we remember moments when we have had a
special glimpse of God and who we are in relation to God. And those moments are only a foretaste of something incredible that we are promised.
We believe that all of us and the whole cosmos will be transformed
in the resurrection. As Ilia Delio says: “The whole universe is created by God for a purpose so that the whole created order will be brought into the glorification of the whole body of Christ.” (Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth, Sr. Ilia Delio, Franciscan Friar Keith Douglass Warner and
Pamela Wood)
Have a conversation with God about how God is transforming everything, including you.
Reflections by Annemarie Paulin-Campbell
