In his well known and loved book, The Road Less Travelled, Dr. Scott Peck writes;

“Paradoxically, a group of humans becomes healing and converting only after its members have learned to stop trying to heal and convert. Community is a safe place precisely because no one is attempting to heal or convert you, to fix you, to change you. Instead, the members accept you as you are. You are free to be you. And being so free, you are free to discard defenses, masks, disguises; free to seek your own psychological and spiritual health; free to become your whole and holy self.”

Unconditional, accepting, love is what Dr. Peck is talking about; this is the transforming agent or ingredient.

On the mountaintop Jesus is transformed before his disciples… and the word of Jesus’ heavenly father is an expression of this same love.

God didn’t wait until the disciples had reached perfection before inviting them to share in this moment of glory. The very fact that these ordinary and flawed individuals were included in this moment apart from the world is further evidence of His transforming and unconditional love.

May God take you to high places, and give you moments apart from the ordinary – sacred glimpses of the extraordinary, to shine light into your every day. Amen.

Blessings

Rev Shan