 What Thomas A. Kempis offers the modern reader offers each one of us self-knowledge, honesty, recognising our own struggles. He offers us also that we can approach God, we can aspire to this magnificent vocation of sanctity, of union with God, amidst the ordinariness, the everydayness of our daily lives. Whatever we're doing in life, whether it's exceptional, whether it's humdrum, God is right there beside us in all of this. God asks of us fidelity and fidelity is a thing which is both very ordinary, very everyday, but at the same time very heroic, very demanding, very rewarding. Thomas A. Kempis tells us that God asks of us nothing more than what we can honestly do and in return for this he promises us something beyond all we've ever imagined or hoped for.