Real holiness somehow brings into my life this sense of opening up opportunity, changing things.  It’s not about my being made to feel inadequate, or looked down on.  On the contrary, somehow I feel a little bit more myself, through recognizing God active in the world.

It’s about enlarging the world, and being involved in the world.  A holy person is somebody who is not afraid to be at the tough points in the center of what it’s like to be a human being and, in the middle of all that, actually to see things and people afresh.

If you want to be holy, look at God. If you want to be holy, enjoy God’s world, enter into it as much as you can in love and in service.