This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, and it's also the last Sunday in the season of Epiphany. Lent begins next week with Ash Wednesday. In worship, we'll reflect on some of the epiphanies that took place in Jesus' life, moments when people saw the divine spirit dwelling in Jesus. These were moments that shook the disciples' foundations and helped them see God's purpose beyond themselves.

I've heard it said that the only constant is change. We live in a changing world, and it seems to be shifting more rapidly than ever before. This Sunday, our choir will sing a musical setting of Robert Frost's poem, "Choose Something Like a Star." So today, I invite you to reflect on the words of this poem, and to choose what you will set your minds and hearts on in this shifting world. I hope to see you Sunday, and as always, I wish you a blessed and love-filled weekend. - Manda

Choose Something Like a Star
by Robert Frost - 1947

O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud --
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.

Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I burn."
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.

It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.

Scriptures for Sunday:
Mark 9:2-10
2 Corinthians 4:3-6