😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. This past weekend Brian and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary. Sitting at Mass Sunday morning, God allowed me to connect some dots that I hadn’t before realized were there. Our anniversary falls on the same weekend as the feast of Jesus’ Transfiguration, in which we read and focus on Matthew 17: 1-9. What an awesome event that must have been to experience, then just a few moments later be told not to share what they experienced with anyone until He was “raised from the dead”. The three disciples, Peter, James, and John, that the Lord chose to experience His transfiguration, may have thought they would never get to share that experience with anyone. I mean, after all, how often is someone raised from the dead.
During Father Ed’s homily, he spoke of an experience he had while leading a retreat for high school students. One of the students asked, what is faith? So, Father Ed posed that question to the other students. What is faith? The response he received from a 17 year old young man left a lasting impression. This young man said, faith is what I have between experiences of God.
Take a moment and let that sink in. Faith is what I have between experiences of God. Faith is what carries us, sustains us, and lightens our steps in those gaps.
Jesus was/is such an unselfish man and God. You know He didn’t transform for Himself. No, He changed so that He might be an example for us. He once again made Himself an example for us to follow. To open ourselves to the transformative powers within us, around us, and through Him. My marriage with Brian has been a very transformative series of experiences. It’s ever changing, as we are ever growing in the depths of our love for each other and our relationship with the Lord.
Some moments can be so transformative, that when you make it though to the other side of that experience, you have been so changed by the Lord, that the person you once were becomes just a shadow. As long as you face the Son, that shadow will always be behind you.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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