Sanctification

Jose Maria Escriva’s book, The Way, has one quote that frequently pops into my mind over the years. It goes something like

“Don’t say ‘that person drives me crazy’ say ‘that person sanctifies me.'”

We all have one person in our life who is trying to make us a better person, even though they don’t know that. We get a very off centered vision of ourselves and then comes a person in our life who shows us who we REALLY are. Impatient, selfish, not so kind, not so loving, greedy, etc. HOWEVER, we usually blame the person we don’t like instead of placing the blame on ourselves.

I am thinking about this because there is a particular person who pushes me like no other and my sister tells me “you’d better figure out how to deal with X because it is not going to get better.” She is right. It won’t get better unless I change my perspective. Becoming holy hurts and we might as well go through the pain now than in purgatory.

So, today, thank God for the people who are sanctifying us–those who are giving us the opportunity to see the not so pretty side of ourselves and giving us the chance for conversion. (cross posted on RCM)