Holiness Today

Good is cool.

A lot of people today see holiness as something old, stiff, or uncool. Like a life with less freedom, less fun, and less color. But real holiness was never meant to make life smaller. It was meant to make the human heart brighter. 

Sometimes holiness looks like replying kindly when we’re tired. Staying honest when cheating is easier. Choosing not to become cruel in a noisy world that keeps rewarding noise. 

A lot of us imagine holiness as something glowing and unreachable, like stained glass floating somewhere above ordinary life. But maybe holiness today wears dusty shoes, carries groceries, waits in traffic, and still chooses peace anyway.

We live in a time where anger spreads faster than wisdom. Flex culture. Fake culture. A world always shouting, “Look at me.” That’s why simple goodness feels almost rebellious now. 

Maybe holiness today means:
• not humiliating people online 
• keeping promises even when nobody checks 
• protecting our minds from endless garbage 
• saying sorry without defending ourselves 
• staying soft-hearted without becoming weak 

The saints from the past walked through wars, corruption, sickness, and confusion too. Different century. Same human storm. Yet they still carried light quietly, like candles sheltered from the storm. 

Holiness today is not about acting perfect. It’s about direction. Moving toward truth even while limping a little.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

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Saint Anysia: Good Is Cool

One question. One honest answer. And a kind of cool the world still struggles to understand.

Early 4th century. Thessalonica, Greece. During the persecutions under Emperor Maximian.

A Roman soldier stopped Anysia, an ordinary woman, in public.

He asked one question: “Are you a Christian?”

Anysia answered immediately. Yes.

The answer ended her life. The soldier struck her and killed her on the spot.

By that time, the meaning of that question was clear. Christians were already being arrested and executed. Fear was already present. Silence had become common.

Anysia did not choose silence.
Her faith in God was enough.

Today, in a Christian nation, the same question can still be asked. “Are you a Christian?”

No one will stab you for answering yes. No soldier. No threat. No death.

And yet, many would still hesitate. Some would answer no. Not because their life is at risk, but because being spiritual now feels uncool.

Saint Anysia’s story is short because her moment was short. But it was enough.

She was cool.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

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