As we gather on Mardi-Gras Sunday, it is also Transfiguration Sunday. As we look at the Apostle's Creed, Jesus' life is reduced to a comma, focusing on his birth and death but not his life. But, in one of the stories that is about his life we look at Mark 9:2-8. Jesus takes some of his disciples on top of a mountain and transfigures in front of them. This divine moment must have seemed unreal but could not have been clear. We are asked to consider how our own mountain-top moments can be serene but also messy.