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Thursday March 6^th, Matthew 17: 1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.  4 Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." Oh, the moment!!!!  To stay up on the mountain top and enjoy the moment forever would be the greatest of bliss.  To bask in the light from on high and stay out of the dirty dusty streets and away from those crosses we were asked to pick up and carry, that is the life.  You and I too would most likely want to stay up there and build the booths.  We could remember the festival of Booths and the time when God abided with us on our journey.  Those were the good old days and as we remember them there is a most blissful feeling.  They don’t call the street drug ecstasy for nothing and staying up there in that “religious high” has anything you can buy beat ten times over.  You and I too would rather stay in the sanctuary and sing the songs, hear the preaching and sing God’s praises.  Only, sometimes, light in order to be light, must shine in the darkness of the dirty and dusty streets.  After six days in the streets the new creation is done, on the seventh we come into the presence of Christ, and even then it is time, time to leave the mountain tops behind and shine the reflective light of Christ at work in the world and through our lives.