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The road you’re on is doing more than carrying you forward, it’s changing you. Lent begins with walking, but it keeps going until it reaches something most of us both want and resist: transformation. I’m Steve Pizzato, and I’m inviting you to slow down and notice what the journey is forming in you as we move closer to Holy Week.

We spend time with two vivid gospel moments that belong together. In Mark 8, Jesus asks a question that won’t let us hide behind other people’s opinions: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answers with the right words, yet the story hints at a deeper truth many of us recognize in our own faith: you can name something accurately and still not understand it. That gap between confession and comprehension becomes a holy place where God can teach, refine, and reshape us.

Then we climb the mountain in Luke 9 for the Transfiguration, where Jesus is revealed in radiant glory and the voice from the cloud says, “Listen to him.” Clear sight is not always comfortable; it can be disorienting because it changes what we think is possible. Along the way, I draw on Tolkien’s imagery of the long road, Aragorn’s slow unveiling, and Gandalf’s transformation to explore Christian discipleship, spiritual formation, and the quiet work of becoming who we truly are in God.

If you’re longing for certainty but living in the in-between, this reflection offers language, Scripture, and practical questions to carry with you. Subscribe, share this with a friend walking their own road, and leave a review with the question you’re holding right now.

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