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ho's the holiest person you know? It would be hard for me to say. Sometimes, I get a little discouraged at not having good personal role models of what it looks like to be following in God's footsteps. Radical holiness is hard to find.
This past Sunday, though, as I looked down on the pews from the choir loft and saw the community I've grown so fond of over the past years, I thought about what ordinary holiness looks like. I'm not sure there are any living saints in my little church, but I do think that just about every person in there has been changed at least a little bit by the presence of God in their lives. I could almost see the secular versions of a lot of these folks, and felt that each of them was a little better than they would be if they spent their Sundays unwinding at home.
It's never good to settle for spiritual mediocrity, and I'd like to find true peace in my heart, and to be able to see it in someone else. But it's a good reminder that devastatingly pure saintliness is not the only way that God works in our lives, and we should always be attentive to the small victories.