Transfigured

The common things are taken in,
     Transfigured by His grace,
So we see what has always been,
     Illumined by His face.

For Jesus is transfigured here,
     As we see in His light
That death is stripped of human fear,
And we live in His life.

But we cannot restrain Him now
     To keep Him on this earth,
And we with Him to Father bow–
     Await our heaven’s birth.

For after death we rise with Him,
     Elijah, Moses too.
His tomb becomes our Bethlehem;
     We rise to life anew!