While they were up on the mountain by themselves, suddenly the three disciples saw Moses and Elijah standing there with Jesus.

They went up there to get away and to pray, which frankly sounds pretty good to me right now. So one day Jesus took Peter, James, and John up on a mountain, just the three of them. Many times in life we hear someone say something but it doesn’t really sink in, or make sense, or become relevant to us until later. They had a lot of advice to hand out though, which was prefaced by the warning to “Hear me now and listen to me later.” Again, it cracked me up, but there is a lot of truth is that phrase. Unfortunately their focus was pretty narrow and didn’t include much more in life than body building. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Hans and Franz, the two overachieving body builders on Saturday Night Live whose tag line was, “We’re gonna pump (clap) you up!” They never really pumped me up but they did crack me up.