In his book, This Sunrise of Wonder, Michael Mayne writes this to his grandchildren: "If I could have waved a fairy grandfather's wand at your birth and wished upon you just one gift it would not have been beauty or riches or a long life: It would have been the gift of wonder." (Michael Mayne, This Sunrise of Wonder, London: Fount Paperbacks, 1995, p. 11) He goes on to suggest that they set their sights not on success, but on wonder. They should live with a sense of awe. Maybe that's part of what's going on at the Mount of Transfiguration. In this glimpse of glory, Jesus is trying to give the disciples the gift of wonder, a sense of awe.