Today we celebrate the miracle of transfiguration. It is a great story - a great way to continue our Lenten discipline of preparing for the Easter season. Jesus takes three of his disciples up on a mountain with him, and before their very eyes he is swallowed up by the glory of God's great might. In the presence of such glory, his clothes turn white as light and his face shines like the sun. Then Moses and Elijah, two men of God who had been dead for more than 1,000 and more than 800 years respectively, appeared before Jesus and his disciples, and they started talking with him. By now the disciples were really uneasy, scared. They had never seen anything like this. Then to top it off a voice from heaven could be heard: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him (Ma…