Holiness

 What is holiness?  I think that it is becoming who you are meant to be.  So many holy card pictures show us a colorful, but lacking in human qualities, persons who are declared saints.  I believe that there are far more undeclared saints who have become so because they became what God made them to be.  We tend to think of holy people as those who spend all their time in chapels, looking up at something, kneeling in ecstasy.  Well, if everyone were like that, not much would get done.  We think of saints as "nice," waiting for God to do all the heavy lifting.  But God is up against some very willful, selfish and greedy people who have no interest in God's plans.  So saints sometimes have to be pushy, willful, cajoling, indefatigable, in order to get through all that darkness.  Nice can at times be cowardliness covered over.