To lead us out of the darkness (Christopher Zakian)

  Christ has called us to walk with him. Why did he choose us? Where is he taking us?  We cannot say for certain.  All we know is that he is leading us upward.  We are like the disciples in the story of the Transfiguration.  Our ascending path will be strenuous at times, and it will lead us to a place beyond our everyday lives.  Some of the things we see during our climb may be too enormous, too confusing, too frightening for our human minds to grasp.  At the same time, our human gestures of piety and reverence, however sincere they may be, are inadequate to the momentous things we seek to honor -- much as Peter's remarks about building shrines seems ridiculous as a response to what he saw.

  But Christ did not come among us just to show us how insignificant we are. 

  He came to show us that the infinite God Who created the universe, who transcends time and space, is not too big to concern Himself with human things.

  With his hand on our shoulder, and his voice in our ear saying, Be not afraid, Christ has come to lead us out of the darkness.

--Christopher Zakian, 

In the Dark about the Transfiguration 

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