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Key Bible Verse: I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people (Leviticus 26:12).
Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:16b-7:1

I remember going to see the movie Gandhi when it first came out. We were the usual Saturday night movie crowd: restless, sitting there waiting for the lights to dim, with popcorn and soda pop, and girlfriends and boyfriends, and your legs draped over the seat in front of you. But by the time the movie came to a close, with the flames of Gandhi's funeral pyre filling the screen, there wasn't a sound or movement in the theater. We filed out of that Florida shopping-mall theater in as deep and telling a silence as anything I've ever been part of.

I think we belong to holiness, even when we're not even sure it exists. We recognize it when we see it and feel it in the air about us.

In the life of that little, bandy-legged, bespectacled Indian, with his spinning wheel and his bare feet, and whatever it was he had in him in the way of selfless passion for peace and a passionate opposition to every form of violence, we'd all tasted something that at least for a few moments made every kind of life except for his kind seem empty.

—Frederick Buechner in Preaching Today

Adapted from: Preaching Today (56).

Prayer for the Week

Father, motivate me to cooperate with your Spirit to build holiness into my life.

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