devotion to Jesus Christ and our desire to be saved. Too often, Christians assume that salvation is a singular, defining event. This mentality may result in living our “entire life ‘saved’ but relatively unchanged.” 1 As much as we might want it to be true, saying yes to Christ does not instantly eradicate all of our sin patterns and make us holy overnight. We become Christians in a process that begins the first time we turn our faces toward Him and ends the day He calls us home. Author and spiritual director