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In defining shalom, we said that those who have land yearn
for shalom in terms of continued fertility and stability.
When Jerusalem was burned and the people were carried captive and Israel became a nation of have - nots, the yearning
for shalom was a yearning for liberation and return.10
As Mary sings, prophecy is already being fulfilled in this world, lifting up the humble singer, pulling faithful hearers toward the future God wills
for the shalom of all creatures, and energizing them to bring home to others the real presence of the indwelling God.
Thus when Joseph says «Shalom to you» to his brothers, the NRSV translates «Rest assured» (Gen. 43:23), Similarly, «Go in shalom» or «Go to or
for shalom» is a traditional parting formula (Gen. 44:17; Ex.
Ben - hadad, king of Aram, issued orders that said: «If they have come out
for shalom, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive» (1 Kings 20:18).
Pray
for the shalom of Jerusalem: «May they prosper who love you.
In an extraordinary juxtaposition of war and peace, David asked Uriah «
for the shalom of Joab and
for the shalom of the people, and
for the shalom of the war» The translation is, «David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going» (2 Sam.
We can not skip from cause to cause, but rather need to work
for shalom patiently, step by step, on grounds of sound teaching about just peace.
While I can prove Phil Roberston's assessment wrong by opening up any book on the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Right Movement, I don't think that would create space
for Shalom.
The hungry and thirsty: those haunted by justice, who ache
for the shalom of God, for things to be put right, those who feel in their very bones the pain of their own inadequacy to change the way the world works.
I am still charismatic, I still believe in signs and wonders, I still believe that God is for us and that we were meant
for shalom.
Here is a consistency to which I bear witness: we are always meant for community and love, always meant for wholeness and
for shalom.
Make room for your own grief and heartbreak and healing, your own triggers and need
for shalom, too, your own need for tenderness and care, too, the reminders and markers of healing for yourself.
I think of the waiting for the Christ child, yes, and I think of the still - waiting for all things to be made right, for our longing
for Shalom.
For us Shalom is the essence of Jesus» commandments and great commission.
Not exact matches
He yearns
for God's glory, in essence his
Shalom, and calls the «saints» to guide the lost home.
Discipline is reorientation to love and
shalom and wholeness
for all of us.
But I will always work and pray from within the family to see us rise to who we were meant to be all along, God's glorious vision
for humanity in full
shalom.
«
Shalom,» he says, showing a familiar face, holding up a wounded hand, and then he waits
for the truth to sink in,
for the disciples to let out their breath in one joyful gasp,
for them to fall on him weeping, shouting, cheering.
I felt the
Shalom of God, his unity on earth as it is in heaven, slip away as believers took sides, rallied together in disgust, and used «rights» and «amendments» as justification
for ignoring the suffering of their African - American sisters and brothers in Christ.
Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle
for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's
shalom.
As Vice President of the Pontifical Council
for the Laity I got to know their founders and leaders and began to esteem their apostolate — «Catholic Charismatic Renewal», which was developed in the U.S., «Focolare» and «Communione e liberazione» in Italy, Schoenstatt in Germany, «
Shalom» in Brazil and others.
Or I decide to save the world and so march into the social justice battles ready to establish a bit of
shalom for someone else first.
Shalom happens when we crucify our love
for our rights and listen to the ones who are hurt by our misuse of those «rights».
In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day of
shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound from healing, in recognition of our living still in the old order of things.
While I do not deny that memory fails as a bridge if it is transposed into Grice's and
Shalom's concept of the present, it is not clear that the reasons
for that transposition are compelling.
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Shalom:
For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «On the Structure of the Person: Time and Consciousness» (in Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and, more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear in Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).
The real difference between Hartshorne and
Shalom boils down to whether (a) it is memory that accounts
for personal identity or (b) vice versa.
To pray
for God's reign to become more fully visible, to pray
for God's perfect heavenly
shalom to come into its own on earth as well, is to ask
for the aftershocks of the fall to be quieted.
The Jews are hated by their inferiors — every other nation Using the Exodus story to call
for shock and awe war, Shabbat
Shalom The double speak of war being an act of empathy
Seek just not SKINAH peace of heart, Islam,
Shalom for your heart, but also
for the one who followed hindu Lucifer, criminal secular as their god and created mayhem among humanity.
For example, Isaiah's portrait of
shalom is when people «beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.»
Their ideal
for society was
Shalom, which we often translate as peace.
To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention
for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is
shalom or abundance of life.
By extension every good deed, every struggle
for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care
for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument
for the bringing about of just such
shalom or «abundance of life»
for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications
for the whole range of human life and experience.
Another aspect of
shalom is that it gives room
for difference.
This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from human failure but as an indication of and an empowering
for the «wholeness of life» (
shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God purposes
for men and women both in their personal existence and in their social belonging.
We are not afraid, we were made
for these days as embodied
shalom, this way to resurrection.
Shalom is God's intention
for creation from the beginning.
To warn of exile, to judge human illusions, and to call
for hopeful return to trust in God's
shalom was the prophetic task in the Old Testament.
In divine language word hinduism, absurdity called religion does not exist, borne out of hindu Judaism, filthy secularism defiance of truth absolute of Persia and Egyptian hindu pagan origin, hindu Jew's criminal secular s pretending to be Hebrew, but Theen Allah, way of truth absolute, source
for peace,
Shalom among humanity, Quran quantifies it and Hidat explains the La, limit's absolute to reach peace Islam in life.
In their indictment of war as waged in the time of the monarchy, the prophets charged that Israel had abandoned trust in Yahweh
for the sake of trust in its own powers, and had abandoned Yahweh's goal of
shalom for all in favor of the pursuit of prosperity and power
for a few.
If war in general is to be seen as sinful because it risks the triumph of chaos over
shalom, then nuclear war must be the ultimate sin — representing the absolute triumph of chaos and the end of all possibility
for wholeness and well - being.
But within this broad concern
for the things that bring chaos and destroy
shalom, war certainly has a special place.
But as expressions of the
shalom for which we were created and to which we are to witness, these visions are what people of faith live out even when the world refuses such visions.
«If one were to choose a single word to describe the reality
for which God created the world, and in which he seeks to sustain the community of those who respond to his initiating grace..., that word would be «
shalom.»»
In the old tradition of
shalom for Israel only, the apostles asked him, «Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?»
David may not build the temple,
for he is a man of war; Solomon shall build it,
for he is a man of
shalom (1 Chron.
Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
for he will speak
shalom to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.