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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.
The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which have resulted are due to men's coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.
We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.
Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.
The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.