Greetings …

This coming Sunday is Transfiguration of Jesus Sunday – the day when Jesus’ personal appearance was changed into a glorified form which showed something more than the disciples had seen before.  This story is amazing, but I wonder if the most amazing thing is not Jesus’ transformation, but the way this encounter transformed the disciples?

                     Transfigured
                     Moutains, clouds and light,
                     summer, burnt land, flooded land,
                     surf, sand – and sunburn.

                     Dazzling light and heat,
                     deep blue hemisphere above,
                     cosmic dimensions.

                     In busy cities,
                     plains of spinifex, mulga,
                     and farm sin between.

                     Not smoke and mirrors
                     of would-be modern ‘saviours’
                     but ‘presence of God’.

                     What then would it be
                     to see God in our neighbour?
                     A world transfigured.

                     © Jeff Shrowder, 2025.

Blessings – Rev  Heather Hon (she/her).