Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
How do you make a good moment last in a world in which beauty, joy, and peace can often seem so fleeting? Just a taste of a good thing and already our mind begins to think of "always" "forever" "again". Perhaps this is what motivates Peter when he offers to make a tent for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah during this moment of the sublime beauty of the Transfiguration. Can we be in this moment, can we be in this good place forever? We live these moments with the people we love, doing the things that we love. But we know all too well that it won't always be a sunny sky. Children leave, marriages become strained, friendships grow cold, our work goes unnoticed and underappreciated, we ourselves may feel forgotten. And we begin to doubt. Were those moments of beauty, joy and peace authentic and true? Were they worth anything?