How beautiful it is when our eyes are transfigured and we see that our neighbor is an icon of God. We see in you, and you, and me that we are icons of God. How serious it is when we hate the image of another because we are hating the image of God. We all need to be transfigured to recognize God in the other. We all need to discover that God is there even in the mundane.
Any day can be a summit day.
One of my mentors was a very small little man named Gilbert. I miss him very much. He was a seminary professor and a wonderfully trained social ethicist and sociologist. Gilbert had done many things in his life. He had been a pipe fitter, a plumber, a missionary, a sawdust preacher, a civil rights demonstrator, and he was, I believe, a prophet in the line of Elijah.