These are
sacred moments that set the course for your day.
About Blog BestForChrist goal is to help our readers to live and grow as Jesus» disciples not only during
sacred moments, but also in everyday life.
This «detachment» to food and lack of priority to make meals
sacred moments is America's food culture crisis.
A congregation given to the cultivation of sacred «hot spots» in its life, whether liturgical or emotional in form, may amplify the linking action of congregational plot — the association of events for the purpose of identity — but the vivid occurrences do not in themselves qualify as
sacred moments.
One of the things I have been most inspired by in Church history is the ways in which everyday things were often viewed as
sacred moments.
Life's most
sacred moments are usually those of marriage, parenthood, and death.
I agree that many of
our sacred moments of connection with God seem to come when outdoors in the creation.
We have a lot of laughter, a lot of mess, a lot of frustrations, challenges, victories, and
sacred moments.
You'll miss the richest moments in life —
the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love — if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
These are
the sacred moments.
They are
sacred moments, binding us together in their secrecy.
In fact, those human moments are are
the sacred moments — birth, grief, work, death, suffering, sex, joy, laundry, all of it.
Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and
sacred moments of my life.
Nevertheless, at the first possible q moment, alone and in danger, Mary comes into the thundering absence of the one she loves — and by so doing, puts herself where revelation finds her ready to face
the sacred moment.
In a suffering world, there is no time to linger in
the sacred moment.
As she is borne aloft by four handsome angels, below her are the oceans, abysses, deserts and mountains where she witnessed to
the sacred moment of her encounter with the risen Lord.
It really was
a sacred moment for me, and is still to be respected as such.
came a shout from the crowd, piercing
the sacred moment and producing a ripple of chuckles throughout the chapel.
You know, that moment,
a sacred moment in friendship, the pause between.
It would be such
a sacred moment, filled with deep emotion and uncontainable joy.
He has taken
a sacred moment filled with worship and has drained it of any supernatural aspect.
It was
a sacred moment for me.
It is
a sacred moment for me.
These charges are over the top and are an example of Church and State working far to chummy to secure power (the most appropriate response the Church should have would be to weep at the violation of
their sacred moment and invite the band to stay for the rest of the liturgy).
The most
sacred moment in the relation of the master to his disciple comes when the master finally turns the disciple back to himself; it reveals the significance of the master for his disciple; it is the moment in which the relationship is most intimate.
In
this sacred moment he grasped the knowledge about the suffering of the world, the sources of suffering, its annihilation and the way to its annihilation.
His birth WAS a beautIful and
sacred moment.
Drinking tea is
a sacred moment for me, and there are lots of sacred moments, let me tell you.
What if when we saw someone in the «dark night» of their life, instead of lamenting on the sorry state of affairs we instead choose to perceive their experience as quite possibly their most
sacred moment?
Enjoy every minute of
this sacred moment you will create for yourself.
«-- An exchange of cuddles and dreamy smiles, where love is openly shared and energy is filled up with an equal exchange of appreciation and affection for each other, and
a sacred moment of divine tenderness.
At
the sacred moment, when a man cried out to call for a Saviour, he receives the grace of mercy of salvation.
If nothing else, working with those artists — you know forget it's what the gallery looks like because of that — just me, personally, that has been just sometimes, you know, in the most stressful circumstances, I think it's okay actually, whatever happens because you're walking an extraordinary path with these extraordinary people who are at this really
sacred moment in their lives.
Not exact matches
«[The] world of vows is a world of
sacred things, in which holy and indefeasible obligations stand athwart our lives and command us along certain paths,» whether we find it convenient at the
moment or not.
And then that
moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most
sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.
One of my deepest core beliefs is that we find God most often in the raw and human
moments of our lives, that God doesn't differentiate between
sacred - and - secular for us.
And yet it was the
moment when I felt the line between the
sacred and the secular of my life shatter once and for all.
In these
moments, I am much more aware that the community of the church is so much more than the
sacred stories that bind us together.
In a dialectical vision, real being, i.e., the
sacred, appears in the eschatological
moment only after man's ontological ground in the world has been destroyed.
Earlier, to «cling to being» was to close oneself to the
sacred; now, the dialectical affirmation of being in the immediate
moment is an epiphany of the
sacred.
«Salvation history,» not because every
moment of this world is willed by God in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out in Rama is as much the subject of
sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.
Nor for that matter can a faith accepting the reality of the Fall seek an unfallen
sacred or a primordial
moment of time.
But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the
sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present
moment.
What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the
sacred in the contingency of a particular
moment of time: in this name the
sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history.26
The incarnation is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original
sacred, the death of God himself... What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the
sacred in the contingency of a particular
moment of time: in this name the
sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history [The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), pp. 54, 57].
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.
That preparatory
moment shifted from profane to
sacred ground on this occasion.
You have now revealed to me that in your
Moment you reached the goal of the most radical, radical
sacred.
How the
sacred and holy
moments of life are somehow the most raw, the most human
moments.
They matter to devotional Hindus for whom the key
moment in worship — darshan, or «
sacred seeing» — comes when you look an image of the divine in the eye.