Spiritual nostalgia. It is so real. It is wanting to experience your feelings again during that amazing God moment. It’s wanting to experience again that feeling you had when the Cubs won the World Series. In the gospel for the Sunday, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain and reveals his glory. They feel they experience the realness of Jesus’ divinity, but then they go down the hill, and Jesus seems to have changed. Jesus is not revealing His glory anymore, but the crazy reality is that it’s not Jesus who changes. It’s Peter, James, and John who change. Jesus remains the same, but they can’t see it, and it’s the same with us. As much as we want to return to that fantastic God moment, we don’t have to because Jesus is with us now. He never changes. It’s our emotions. It’s our desires that change. This is Spirit Juice. Peace.
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