Down to seek the Sacred

The location of the Everyday Mystic. 

It is not on the mountain top where the mystic should search but down in the valley of everyday vitality and messiness.   

The mountain silence invites us to pause in wonder but such wonder remains on the mountain but life is lived in the valley. 

Jesus shows his "glory" to the inner circle of disciples on the mountain top but then promptly takes them to the valley floor where  the messiness of life  is shown or symbolized in the boy processed by a tormenting spirit and in the despair of his father.   

Life is uncontrollable and the "evil spirit" cannot be avoided. Yet it is in the uncontrollable that the divine is revealed. Jesus heals the boy and how many of those who witnessed this had their first encounter with the divine presence.     

It may be up to seek the holy but is down to find the sacred.  

This is why most of Jesus' time was spent in the valley.