Second Sunday of Lent (C): Luke 9:28-36
Maybe I’m amazed at the way you’re with me all the time,
Maybe I’m afraid of the way I love you.
Maybe I’m amazed at the way you help me sing my song,
Right me when I’m wrong-
Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you.
– from Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney
It’s amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word you can light up the dark
Try as I may I could never explain
What I hear when you don’t say a thing
– from When You Say Nothing At All, by Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet
Peter, James and John are on a mountaintop with Jesus. Jesus is praying. Suddenly, they see Jesus’ glory, and then see Moses and Elijah with Him. They are amazed and awestruck. They are left without words in the end, and tell nothing of this to anyone.
How can we, in our time, get a sense not only of what this was about for those who witnessed it, but of what it can say to us in our own time? Continue reading “Amazed by God”