Listen!
11As they continued walking and talking, a
chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them,
and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven.
12Elisha kept watching and crying out,
"Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its
horsemen!"
2 Kings 2:1-12
Elijah's
Chariot
© 1998 The
Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
10001 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD
20814
2... Jesus took with him Peter and
James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was
transfigured before them, 3and his clothes became
dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. ...
7Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud
there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to
him!"
Mark 9:2-9
Heads and
Hands of the Apostles
RAPHAEL
Detail
study for The Transfiguration
Black
chalk
Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a
trout.
~ Proverb
Listening to your heart, finding out who you are, is
not simple.
It takes time for the chatter to quiet down.
In the silence of "not doing" we begin to know what we
feel.
If we listen and hear what is being offered,
then anything in life can be our guide.
Listen.
~ Author
Unknown
The
Scout, by Cyrus Edwin Dallin
in storage at
the Denver Art Museum
02-21-06
Yearling,
by Donald Lipski
in front of
the Denver Public Library
Denver,
Colorado
02-21-06
"Sometimes the
heart sees what is invisible to the
eye."
(and
to the ear?)
~ H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
February 26,
2006 Transfiguration of the Lord
Past
OPQs:
Transfiguration
http://www.agnusday.org/comics.html
True wisdom starts with
listening. We can’t do that when we are talking. We can’t do that when we are
being entertained. We can only do that when we enter into the presence of the
living God and tune out everything else. We can’t stay in that place, just as
Peter, James, and John could not stay on the mountain top. But we must return to
that place in our lives where we can connect with the transcendent and loving
Christ in order to bring wholeness to our lives and the lives around
us.
Pastor Dan
Bollerud
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Anchorage,
AK
2 Kings 2:1-12
Psalm 50:1-6
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
Mark
9:2-9
