Cast into the wildernessof mortal thought,the desert of earthly wants,We experience the hunger of hope—a thirst for healing,and mocking voices ofworldly clamor.
It's comparatively easy to freewheel through life, thinking that saints are so few and far between that you or I will never even know one, much less be one! Yet both in pre-Christian times and in the early Christian Church, everyone faithful to God was called a saint.