In the end, faith looks like a kind of clear attention. A truthful way of seeing the world as it is or the person in front of us for who they are really can change everything, beginning with ourselves.
It’s scary in the boat and outside the boat. It’s unnerving just skirting the coastline sometimes. And it’s wild with foam and glitter. As we make our way through this known and strange world, buffeting winds will come at us sideways and catch the heart off guard and blow it open.
“If we, like the people on the mountain that day, make a space where our beautiful, flawed, complicated history can actually be what asks us not to rush to act until we have listened to Jesus with curiosity and wonder, transfigurations are still possible.”
It’s fun to play with the idea of Jesus as an undercover astrophysicist, hinting two millennia ago at the broad reaches of God’s imagination.