Mark 9:2-9
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. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!” Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Quotes from Radical Amazement by Judy Cannato:
The attempt to understand dark energy and dark matter is one of the most significant puzzles that current researchers are trying to solve. Saul Perlmutter, who heads up the Supernova Cosmology Project bluntly puts, "The universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, and we don't know what either of them is." Most of the universe, in other words, is mystery. Most of it -- as much of ninety-five percent -- cannot be seen or touched , yet all life exists because dark matter and dark energy are there, bringing things together in wholeness or stretching them apart in ever-expanding creativity.
Many of us are uncomfortable with mystery.
Mystery has to do with befriending darkness.
Mystery has to do with not knowing, with unknowing, with living in unprejudiced awareness in the present moment with nothing to hold us save our trust in what is unseen.
Often we resist mystery of any sort, perceiving the unknown and uncertain as threats to be eliminated rather than invitations to deeper truth.
Mystery calls us not only to lay down our lives, but to lay down our agendas that interfere with our call.
We should be uncomfortable with Mystery. After all, it will not allow us to escape anything that is less than life-giving.
The Holy One is Mystery; Mystery is the Holy One
How often it is said that if we think we know, what we know is certainly not God, who is beyond al that we grasp with our minds.
Just as the vast majority of the universe is beyond our capacity to see or touch directly, so is the divine. But like Dark Energy and Dark Matter, we can see sign's of God's presence all over the cosmos.
Just as Dark Matter works as an unseen gravitational force to hold galaxies together, so Mystery's presence draws us to the heart of a Holy Darkness. Holy Darkness draws us together, making us whole, and when we operate out of a place of wholeness we become luminous beings that radiate the Spirit's presence and light up the lives of others just as surely as any star.
Just as Dark Energy is an anti-gravitational force that expands the universe, so will the Holy One cause us to move out of our place of comfort and into space that is uncharted and unknown. In the process we are part of the evolution of the cosmos.
In the stillness of the night, in our convergence with Holy Darkness, we are united with the Mystery that lies in the cavern of our heart. Life is a Mystery shrouded in darkness. But the darkness is fecund, a place of possibility and power.
What is radically amazing is that we are invited into the darkness, into the heart of creation and creativity, invited to participate.
The new universe story invites us to expand our commitment to emergence, to participate in the divine unfolding around us and within us as fully as possible.
The radically amazing surrounds us.
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