God’s Transfiguration

When I write about a sight that struck me, I confess publicly that God reveals to us of His goodness what He reveals, and conceals what He conceals. The eyes are stormed and they are ever curtailed. God is manifested in the narration as well as in the silence, in the faces with resounding expressions, and in those that pass by quietly… In seeking the sighting, we must not underestimate the ingenuity of striving. I have learned this from an ancient man from the city of Jericho. You remember Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus the tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree seeking to see Jesus. The strivers have inventions of their own. This is a tree of life planted by God in the midst of our world for the sake of getting more and more of the goodness of the sighting. There is one more thing! Every resounding sight calls us to strive in our search. Every sight is a testimony that there is still something (or someone) we have not yet seen. To see and to search, is a scheme for the day, for every day. O God, it is good for us to be here!