A call to wake up

This morning I was reading about the event in the gospels known as the transfiguration, which is when Jesus transformed into his heavenly appearance before the eyes of some of the disciples. What struck me today in this account from Luke, is how the disciples were overcome by sleepiness and it seems implied that they didn't fully recognize what Jesus was doing until they were fully awake. In this account sleepiness seems literal, but I thought about how often, especially in our modern American lives, are we metaphorically "asleep" to what God is doing in our lives and around us because we are so disconnected, or focused on the wrong things? If we live a life of passiveness, not engaging with God and what he is doing, not living the life he has called us to live, I believe that we too will fail to see him working in our lives and will fail to see him as he has revealed himself to us. This state of literal or figurative "sleepiness" is a choice we make based on how we live our lives.