Transfiguration Sunday. Rarely Transfiguration is on a Sunday. Another beautiful, relatively mild Sunday for August. The butterflies were out in mass. This Sunday we welcomed Jeffri Harre as preacher. Jeffri is the Director of Hospitality at Virginia Theological Seminary and friend of Catherine’s. He is currently working on an MA in Christian Education and is also a spiritual director in Northern Virginia.
Jeffrey talked about Jesus’ prayer habits. He often went alone to pray in the mountains or with his disciples. Rarely is he delivered from unease. In former passages he prays and then feeds the 5,000. On Maundy Thursday he prays and is arrested.
Prayer grounds us and allows us to discern our own ministry. Prayer strengthens us for the tensions of the world that we are bound to experience. But be careful what you pray for. You may be transfigured which is a change of form to a more spiritual state.
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