Preached by Rev. Erik Kindem.
Scripture: Matthew 17:1-9
Summary
A trip to the highest point on the Isle of Iona found my son and I witnessing heaven coming down to earth. Iona is known as a "thin place;" a place where, as Iona Community founder George McLeod has said, "only tissue paper separates the material from the spiritual." The mountain which Jesus ascends with his inner circle of followers was such a thin place. What does that mean? How do we honor those places?
In the end, the lesson is to take the new eyes with us down the mountain, so we can recognize God-with-us in the worst of times, in the midst of suffering, abandonment, and death. When we learn to do this, we become "thin people," people in whom both the suffering and resurrection of Jesus are manifest.