Scripture: Luke 9:28-36
As told in this passage from Luke, through Jesus’s transfiguration we learned that prayer is getting caught up in God’s glory. To pray is to know at any minute you could be surrounded by the glory of God.
Prayer invites us into a wholly different relationship with God than that of extraction or exchange. And for this reason, when the disciples asked Jesus how we should pray Jesus invites us to–remarkably–address God as our parents.
Prayer, like human speech, is a creative act. The prayers that we utter shape our inner lives. When we pray, we are describing the world as it actually is, formed out of this gratuitous love of God that is pouring out over everything. It turns out that prayer isn’t an escape from reality. Prayer describes it.
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