This week I heard Rev. Anne Russ, author of the Doubting Believer blog, talk about the story of the Transfiguration in a new way. She said that Jesus probably sensed a change was going to come on that mountaintop, and yet he only brought Peter, John, and James with him. I wonder, why might Jesus have only brought three friends with him to the top of that mountain? Maybe, Jesus only brought these three friends up to the mountaintop with him because they were the people he trusted the most. The ones he knew would see his true, transfigured, sparkly and vulnerable self and even if they didn’t understand, he knew they wouldn’t judge him.