While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure...
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have beco...
I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance.
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.
It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.
Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita
If what we presently believe to be true is not producing a Kingdom result, we may need to reconsider what we believe to be true.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning’s hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future…
Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.
Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine
Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.
Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.
