“To become a truly spiritual person is to become a fully human one. Some seem to have the impression that we somehow have to transcend our humanity to be “holy.” Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4, however, help keep us firmly grounded in the reality that it is the infusion of the Divine into our very earthy, earthly “jars” that cause us to be and become imago Dei. One without the other is incomplete—there is no wholeness, and therefore no holiness. God’s story, God’s “life” is lived in and through us, even as it transcends us.”

~Rev. Dr. Phaedra D. Blocker