15. Glimpse

"Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, 'Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.'" Mark 8: 31-33

"Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them." Mark 9: 2-3

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How scared they must have felt

betrayed

when you told them that

you would be killed--

put to death.

They loved you more than their own lives

and they knew you had the power

to stop it from happening,

but instead You

told them you would do nothing but

let it come,

and so must they

if they loved you.

Dark days.

Is that why, then, You

let them glimpse

Your light?

To drive out the shadows of humanness

by dazzling them with divinity?

So they could know you as you really were and

hold their Father close

even as they let their brother go?