Getting Holy

It's a nice word, but how do we become holy?

Getting Holy

I remember when I was young, the word “holy” was tossed around occasionally. But it was a word with no meaning to me, just a prefix in front of other words, as in “Holy Ghost”, or “O Holy Night”. In college, the word “holy” was most often heard before a rather crude word as part of an exclamation of surprise.

It took decades before I began to…