Sentences with phrase «holy moment»

How the sacred and holy moments of life are somehow the most raw, the most human moments.

And yet it was the most holy moment of our lives, the moment when I felt the line between the sacred and the secular of my life shatter once and for all.

After he and I walk up the back walk to the farmhouse kinda rocking and swaying with our nearly grown tribe, his worn hand warms mine, and we linger a bit to watch the blue edges of the sky bleeding into a twilight gold, and for a holy moment the world softens and there is time to look and see.

«I think he recognizes it as a holy moment.»

Instead of immediately dismissing or reframing the painful parts of life, work to stay in those holy moments if even just for a minute or two longer.

The path forward: Tender, holy moments are often found on the margins of life — both in great joy and in deep pain.

It's impossible for me not to catch these holy moments when I'm with her.

My residual fear and embarrassment was robbing me of being present in the holy moment of that church service.

But we saw something else: We saw how much better mystery shows up in fog, how much wilder and truer each holy moment is than any fantasy.

This is the presence of God, this is the holy moment, the cathedral, the great moment of surrender and selflessness happening not in the leper colony of India but for me in my own living room in Canada, the breaking of bread and daily manna of communion through a messy home with messy people, learning to love and take joy even when the toast is getting cold.

This is the spiritual discipline I must practice every day, every minute, sometimes every second, if I'm honest: To believe that «each holy moment» can and does supercede «any fantasy.»

Were members of a United Methodist church to have described the holiest moment of the year for their congregation, they would uniformly have cited the warm, candlelit hours of Christmas Eve when families would arrive whenever it was most convenient for them for a private Communion at the altar.

A holy moment where they, as your child, are being the most vulnerable with you, where they are holding their heart and soul in their palms, and asking you to be their loving parent.

To name something a secret, and then honor it as such, is something of a sacrament, a holy moment set apart as sacred.

«Take their coming out to you as a holy moment.

A Christian wedding is a service of worship, an expression of faith, a high and holy moment in our life together.

But a few moments later, someone always breaks the holy moment with a passionate declaration, «I MUST GET...

Birth is a holy moment, and I've even seen a father drastically change his expectation of the kind of parenting his newborn needed, just because he was present when his daughter was born.

This is an incredibly high and holy moment and if we truly understood birth and the ramifications of returning from an altered state... the re-integration... we would protect the privacy of the mother and baby at this time more than any other.

You would possibly have a sacred and holy moment, set apart from all other moments in your life.

In Richard Linklater's animated feature Waking Life, Zahedi extolls the theological theories of French cinema critic Andre Bazin and asks another character to stare into his eyes and generate «a holy moment.»

This exhibition focuses tightly on the traditions surrounding Abstract Expressionism, the holy moment of American twentieth - century fine art.

We hold onto each other, the wounded helping the wounded, and maybe, now and then, as Fredrick Buechner says, «a touch of the hand — a hug — becomes a holy moment» — and that is what I will remember.

One highlight was the «holy moment» we shared with you under the tent outside Saturday morning.