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It's Holy Week, and I don't feel very "holy." 

Things are coming apart and are broken. There's a friend whose husband has been dealing with serious health issues for a few years. A family who lost a dear loved one and marriage struggles for other friends. My job is coming to an end. And, heck just don't even bother to watch the news.

It's Holy Week, and why don't I feel "holy?" 

Because I'm consumed by what I see and what's happening all around me. Lives are shattered into mosaic pieces. And, I desperately need the One who controls life and breath and everything else to put the pieces together.

When I think of the word holy, visions of a perfect, devout person comes to mind; someone like Mother Theresa or St. Augustine. They probably didn't feel holy either. Stuff happened around them as well. I don't have a corner on the market for crap going on.

You want to know what holiness is really about? 

Look at Jesus. He was a normal guy who did surprising things. Touching sick people. People need to be touched, literally and figuratively. The best wine ever was produced at a wedding from jugs of water. And, Jesus always had time for little kids. He wasn't confused or distracted from the Way.

Holiness looks more like a humble person doing the good they know to do. Laugh with those who laugh; weep with those who weep, and much more in between those two extremes.

The Urban Dictionary, which can be impudent, says this:

To be holy is to be pure - innocent in all you say and do, having no hidden motives, wronging no one. It is to be openhearted as a little child and transparent in spirit as the crystal sea before the throne.

Of course! Holy is not a feeling, but rather a way of living. As I open my life and allow Jesus to walk in, over and through holiness happens. I'm moved and affected by the coming apart, but not consumed, because I'm connected to God.

 For all I know, holiness is all about what happens in the everyday; my going out and returning. Slightly messy, sometimes happy, always touched and being touched by the mosaic pieces. But, most importantly listening to the One who is holy.

Respecting Holy Week -

Missy



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