He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design. Don’t you just wish you could make yourself a better person? If you work hard enough, we are told we can achieve anything. Yet despite our best efforts, we fall short of many goals. Accepting our limitations is an important part of a healthy mental and emotional life, but so is the desire to improve. We have the ability to improve our lives in many ways, and so each day we seek to be better than the previous. How does that impact our pursuit of holiness? Are my Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving going to make me holier? If not, why bother? Our spiritual exercises are not about us making ourselves holy, rather they are about contriteness of heart and an effort to be in His...