Prayer - doorway to Jesus' transfiguration

Did you ever have any experience perhaps by accident about, of all places and at such an unholy hour, discover something new, amazing or unusual in a friend or acquaintance? Perhaps your jaw dropped and your eyes stopped blinking... time seemed to stop... others, the same but they're looking at you instead... hmmmm - speechless, in a trance if not hypnotized, wondering if you really have known after all you have been with, this "kalog" friend of yours... Now you might say, "well, it depends", if what you discover is something good or praiseworthy you might feel envious or end up hugging him (tsk, iba na 'to...) and wishing it would last forever (naku ha! ano ka ba talaga..?), or if you have perceived something negative or disgusting, the impression might leave you in a paranoic manic-depressive state your whole life through ('kakaawa ka naman...). In either case, there is always something new we can discover in someone we know, and everyone has his own story to tell.

Someone says that most people spend considerable time knowing about others and what they do but surprisingly less time knowing themselves. Perhaps they are afraid of discovering something not likeable in themselves... those dark shadows they have long kept and confined in one corner of their subconscious. They might feel more comfortable by allowing others the initiative of bringing them out actually for them, since this will give them a psychological bufferzone where they could engage in arguments and all sorts of justifications or defenses. Could this perhaps be the reason why people sometimes are afraid to pray? Prayer enables one to discover the "real ME"... with no justifications whatsoever... just the "bare YOU as YOU ARE". One can simply go through the motions of attending a "Prayer show" with others everyday but without really and personally encountering the pathways leading to God. In my opinion, the only way we can truly know ourselves and others is through prayer both communal and personal but hopefully a prayer (moment) that will not grow mechanical nor external only but with time dedicated to meditation and listening to what God has to say to renew ourselves....

Jesus is a man of prayer, and there's absolutely no doubt about it. I believe though that while walking on the mountain with his intimate circle of disciples, he could have found a place where he could pray, and that was exactly what happened before he was transfigured - while in a prayerful posture.

Now, why was Jesus transfigured in the presence of his disciples? Was it only because he wanted them to realize that the hour has come for the lamb of God to be sacrificed on the cross of golgotha to redeem mankind from sin? Perhaps there could be other reasons and one of them is prayer - as the doorway through which the human self communicates and is sustained by the Divine Godhead. By being transfigured, Jesus is leading us to knowing that with our constant communication with the heavenly Father through prayer, we can achieve that "enlightenment" stage yet while living on this earth, precisely that grace-filled beautiful moment enjoyed by Adam and Eve before they sinned against Yahweh.

Constant meditative and deep prayer can lead us to our own taboric experience, like Jesus did.