And what does it look like?
Freedom means equality for all people. People work together not be competitive. Freedom means I can say what I want without "fearing" that I may be outcast or even fired for my beliefs. Freedom means living with whom I love and being able to call our marriage a marriage not only for ourselves, and others, but for the courts or our church of worship.
I was coming back the last night from the Casino with my mother. When I talk about my ancestors and family speak to me, it may sound to others like abstract or new agish. So we're in the car, and she says grandmother spoke to her the other day. So, I'm listening and she tells me her experience. Then I tell her mine. Then I say I know people think we crazy and she wrapped it up with her co-workers saying "who are you talking to..?"
The conversation gave me a sense of comfort and connection with my mother not just knowing that I believe in my ancestors and family who contact me, but the rest of my family does too.
That's holiness to me. Wholeness, connection, family, and community. Sense of being, I believe, doesn't always have to happen isolation. Of course, we don't die with whom we are with. I just feel our sense of being is shaped by those we let be around us.
That's holiness.