Is there a 'real world'? It's all about a right perspective!

I love the Biblical account of the Mount of Transfiguration. In it we
encounter honest and sincere human emotion. Peter is taken up in the
bliss of the 'opening of heaven' and so, like most persons, he tries
to find a way of staying there so that he never has to leave the
mountain and return to the 'real world' struggles of the valley.

I often find myself doing that. I also try to 'build shelters' in the
blissful spaces, places in my mind where I can keep justice safe from
perversion (like Peter wanted to build a shelter for Moses on the
mountain). Places where I want to keep God's prophetic voice from
being too widely heard, and so abused and missunderstood (like Peter
wanting to build a shelter to keep tge Prophet Elijah on the
mountain)...

But if course, the whole reason for the Transfiguration experience was
not to remove Peter and the other disciples from the real world, but
yo give them a 'new perspective'. It was intended to show them where
the righteousness of the law us intended to help, shape, protect, and
honour God. It was to show them the 'big picture' of the world as God
sees it, and help them to hear God's will and voice for the real world
in the valley.

A new perspective on life in the valley, that, surely, is one reason
for the transfiguration. Yet, like many others I also feel the
temptation to want to stay on the mountain and avoid returning to the
'real life' below. But, if you are called to discipleship, you are
called to take the perspective if the mountain back into the valley.
To share the freedom abd justice if the law, abd the hope, love, and,
life of God's prophetic will where it truly matters...

The perspective is about the valley, not the mountain top...

This picture was taken st the top if the Outeniqua pass. A lovely
mountain top, and a spectacular valley.

Have a blessed day.