Christ’s transfiguration transfigures us
Title page of Larcom’s Beckonings
Today's Devotional
The Transfiguration has lived on through ages, and has shed its light upon all ages. It has brought the past into union with the present. Moses and Elijah have been felt to be not dead forms, but living men, because the Son of God and the Son of Man lives. “The decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem” has been owned as the bond of fellowship between those who walk the earth and suffer in it, and those who are departed from it. In the light of that countenance which was altered, of that raiment which was white and glistering, all human countenances have acquired a brightness, all common things have been transfigured. A glimpse of the divine beauty has broken through the darkness, and has cheered the humblest pilgrims.
About the author and the source
F. D. Maurice (1805–1872) was a Church of England theologian and educator, and a founder of Christian Socialism. Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), who included his thought in a compilation she produced, grew up in poverty in New England where she became an inspirational poet and author.
F. D. Maurice. “September 28” in Beckonings for Every Day, a Calendar of Thought, arranged by Lucy Larcom. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1887.