Mountains have traditionally been places for experiencing Divinity. The Dolomites in northern Italy are magnificent mountains where I had an intense experience of God as the rising sun made everything splendid. As Tennessee Williams has Blanche DuBois say, "Suddenly there's God."
It's to a mountain, then, that Jesus takes three Apostles for an intense experience of God in Jesus. He was transfigured. His face became like the sun. His clothes shining with light. A cloud embraced them. Both light and cloud cannot be grasped. Good symbols, then, to express the inexpressable Divinity. Suddenly there's God.
God is always waiting to show Godself to us. Regularly setting aside a particular time and space for prayer can ready us for those moments in our ordinary, everyday life when suddenly there's God.
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