Glimpses of the Divine

BEING SALT AND LIGHT

It was probably the summer of 1965. I was out in the backyard of my parents house shooting basketballs. I turned to the south shore of Long Island and saw something I have never forgotten. It was a meteorite slashing across the sky, low enough to hear the sizzle from it burning up in the atmosphere.  In my mind I can see and hear it whenever I want to. What I find difficult is explaining the experience to someone else. My description and the words fall so far short of that one moment in time that I shared with the cosmos. Later that night, on the news, the meteorite sighting was reported to have been seen from Maryland to Boston Massachutes. This at least helped the people I told about it believe I was not seeing things.

The apostles had the same problem when they described what it was like to see Jesus in this so-called Transfiguration. They tried to explain that it was like seeing Jesus in the company of others who radiated the love, power and wonder of God. As a matter of fact, the lesson will tell us that, "And they kept silent and those days told no one of the things they had seen."  I am sure they tucked away in their hearts the message from the Creator to listen to everything Jesus had to say. Later, when more things were said by Jesus and they had other experiences, they shared this moment they had with Jesus.

What is it like for you to describe the moments in your life that you encounter the sacred and the holy?  I am not always sure how to explain when in my inner self, maybe the soul, I am convinced that the love of God is real.  It is hard to tell people how I might be inspired by the darkness of the night juxtaposed to the stars in the sky and move me to be compassionate and kind.  Can anyone understand that on this last Sunday morning, 2 year old Huck Neurouter looked at me with a smile that can only come from God and helped me see God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the very beginnings of an incredible life.  The one thing I want to tell you is keep trying. Let's keep telling the moments we get a glimpse of the Creator who peaks in and wraps his love around us.

Along the way,

PN