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WWW Vision and Service These high moments are rare hut Important. We read of one of the most memorable of these in the familiar story of the Transfig uration, and what followed it. There was the great vision on Mt. Her men's snows; and there was the tough situation down in the valley. Tough situations were common: that vision came only once. It is the way of life always. Paul s vision on the Damascus road did not last long, yet it controlled and inspired his whole life afterwards. Moses saw but one burning bush; yet that day's vision drove him through many a year of toil and trouble. It is the high moments that give power to the low days. Life cannot be all vision, yet it should not be all service. Or as we should rather say. the vision is for the sake of the service, and the service translates the vision into action. Vision illumines serv ice; service obeys vision. High moments come to us in various ways. We have our high moments of faith when doubt drops away and we rise to a certainty that never quite leaves us again. We have high moments of hope, when the distant dream comes over the horizon toward us and we see the "alabaster cities gleam'' as if they were across the street; and high moments of love, so certain, so profound, that ever after, under all the trivial and troubling currents of everyday necessity the deeper love flows steady, ever sure. ft ft ft Trust Your Best Moods Life has two temptations here. One is to make the mountain's vision last without ceasing. We do not want the glory to vanish in the cloud. But this is a temptation. Not even heaven is like that. There will be vision in heaven, more glorious than any here: but there will be service too, and more faith ful than any here. If there are any beings whom God has destined for vision only, and not for service, they are angels, not men.