Transfiguration Happens: A meditation poem for the second Sunday of Lent

A meditation poem for 

the second Sunday of Lent

Transfiguration Happens

Transfiguration happens

in each moment.

When a sunbeam cuts 

through the forest canopy 

and illumines a glade with 

sudden glory,

transfiguration

happens.

When a flower unfurls 

and startles 

with stunning 

colour,

transfiguration

happens.

When stillness settles 

in the soul, 

long enough for us

to notice light leaking 

lovingly

into the world through 

leaves, and 

life quietly working 

miracles of 

resurrection from 

the mulch 

of seeming 

death,

transfiguration

happens.

And even

when we, worried,

busied and bothered,

do not 

notice our daily

divine draw

up the 

mountain,

from glory 

to 

glory;

transfiguration

happens

still.