This morning we woke up on time and made it to mass.  Our Gospel reading today was the account of the transfiguration of Jesus.  My wife and I spoke about this late last night in preparation for her leading of the children's ministry today.  I thought of how this event signaled a number of faith transformations.  The transformation of how Jesus was understood, that he would no longer be viewed as simply a prophet, healer, or social reformer.  That the God of Abraham would no longer be just for the chosen people but for all men.  That mankind would evolve from faith based on earning favor through law abidance and sacrificial offerings, to faith based on love of God and man.  That faith would be based on transformation rather than transaction.

My younger son got to carry the Bible in the procession of the children to their liturgy.  I ran into the Grand Knight of the KOFC and sheepishly apologized for not participating in the golf tournament.  He asked me to attend the officers meeting tomorrow night.

I listened to a sermon about the Gospel and heard mention of the psychological concept of the peak experience.   I recalled that I had heard about this before and equated it to the "spiritual experience" in the AA Big Book.  This is the feeling of epiphany on has when they experience a trans-formative event in their lives.  I read about it mostly from Maslow but also from Flow psychology.  The psychologists seek to naturalize what was previously thought of as a religious experience.  I thought of this as simply an objective description of a spiritual, religious experience that is a natural process.  I had a peak experience today with the Gospel.  This had a trans-formative effect on me.

In the afternoon I got to take my son to baseball practice.  We enjoyed working together, I got to pitch in the batting cage.  The coach worked with the pitchers, having them take turn pitching to live batters.  My son got to play catcher, bat and pitch.  He did well, probably best at all positions.  The coach talked alot about pitching issues. He said my son pitched best of them all, although he still doesn't seem to have faith in him.  We also got to talk about next year when the boys move up.  I was pleased to hear that he will probably be coaching again.

Back at home after the kids went to bed I did the last of my math homework that was overdue.  It was difficult and frustrating at times but I finally got it done.  I felt afraid and I wanted to give up.  Our instructor sent an email around the time I was finishing up informing us that we are officially half way through.  I am officially caught up also.  I looked at my overall grade so far and was pleasantly surprised.

Thanks be to God.