Going together for a vacation as a family is an experience that all of us desire for. Once I gave this advice to a father of house, to go for a vacation with the family members. But he told me, “We meet every day in our house and speak. What difference it makes whether we meet in our house or in a tourist place?” For him there is no difference but those who enjoy the vacation in a tourist spot knows the value of it.
Though Jesus and the disciples were praying together Jesus called His closest disciples to a mountain. It was a special moment to understand and experience Jesus the Son of God (as in the tours where the family experiences the warmth of relation more intensively than in their house). After experiencing the Divine the disciples wanted to spend more time on the mountain. But Jesus told them to decent the mountain to the realities of life. For Jesus the realities were – his passion and death.
We need the moments to experience in depth Jesus, the tabor experience. It can be our moments of meditation, personal prayers, a retreat or a pilgrimage. It strengthens us to face the realities of our day to day life.
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