Open to me the Gates of Holiness, and I will enter and give thanks, we read in psalm 118.
Holiness means wholeness, a wholeness of self, soul and body, mind and heart.
To enter the gates of holiness means you don't becomes some above reproach individual, but someone who has a different outlook on life. Small and petty things will drop away, for you can see a bigger picture, one that puts such things in their place.
You will not be afraid to be vulnerable, to admit failings, to be human. Because you know that grace builds on nature, and we are called not to some impossible dream, but to a wholeness that completes, heals, and gives life.
Wholeness of spirit is the only way to holiness. It brings together our failings and our good deeds, our desires and our fears, our wants and our needs. It blends them so we have confidence without being proud, hope without going to presumption, and courage without acting foolhardy. A spirit that is whole is a spirit living with her feet on earth and her heart in heaven.
Enter into the gates that lead to wholeness. There you will find Divinity. And in that light, you will become light, even to yourself.
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