Be A Saint 

   “I want to become a saint; it will not be easy at all.  I have a lot of wood to chop, and it is hard as stone.  I should have started sooner, while it was not so difficult; but, in any case; better late than never. (St. Zellie Martin) 

   Sainthood is our destiny; it is God’s will for us.  Why would we not want to pursue such a glorious end to this life and beginning of eternal life?  Yet many do not choose sainthood or put it off, sometime until it is too late.

   I think people are afraid of wanting to become a saint because they read or hear of the lives’ of the saints and see a lot of  hardship and even martyrdom.  They do not feel they are worthy or capable of such a life.

   But sainthood does not always mean such things.  The saints we read of are those who have been recognized by the Church due to the life they led and of substantiated miracles attributed to prayers for their intercessions.  Few have or will receive such recognition.

   To be a saint is to be in heaven; to have lived in such a way that eternity will be spent in God’s kingdom.  All who have died in the grace of God will know the glory of heaven and thus are saints.  Though most will never be known in this world, they have achieved sainthood.    

   As Christians our goal is to become a saint, to “chop the wood”, to carry the cross, and to live for God and His will.  God wants all of us to be saints; why wait, start becoming one today.