Holiness can sound like a quality I must maintain.
One unkind thought, defensive reaction, or unproductive day appears to threaten it.
Anything that fragile could not be eternal.
I remember noticing envy when someone shared good news. I congratulated them, but part of me immediately compared their progress with my own.
The thought felt small and ungenerous.
My first impulse was to hide it from myself by producing better thoughts as quickly as possible.
Remembering holiness allowed me to be more honest.
Envy showed me where I believed another person’s good reduced what was available to me. That belief needed correction, not concealment.
I could let their happiness be theirs while bringing my own fear to love.
Eternal holiness does not mean every passing thought is holy. It means no passing thought can alter what God placed in me.
Today I want to notice what I am afraid honesty will reveal.
Because holiness abides, I can examine fear without making a home inside it.
The light does not leave when something unloving becomes visible.
Visibility is how the light begins to heal it.
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