{"id":929,"date":"2019-06-19T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T21:44:41","slug":"holy-moments-an-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Holy Moments &#8211; an example"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">[To follow <strong><em>The Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong>, please click on <strong><em>Leave a Comment<\/em><\/strong> above, fill in your name and email, and check the box: <strong><em>Notify me of new posts by email<\/em><\/strong>. If your comment is, &#8220;Notify me,&#8221; it won&#8217;t post publicly. If you don&#8217;t start to receive the blog by email right away, please write to me at bob@ewell.com, and I will see that you get on the list.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> June and I were discussing \u201choly moments,\u201d the concept I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=922\">yesterday<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Biggest-Lie-History-Christianity-Happiness-ebook\/dp\/B07FCS6TTQ\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ORX5WMSA283R&amp;keywords=the+biggest+lie+in+the+history+of+christianity+matthew+kelly&amp;qid=1560811284&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=The+biggest+lie+%2Caps%2C204&amp;sr=8-1\">The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity<\/a> by Matthew Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>Can you go out tomorrow and create just one Holy Moment? Not a holy life or even a holy day&#8230;just one single Holy Moment&#8230;A Holy Moment is a moment when you open yourself to God. You make yourself available to him. You set aside what you feel like doing in that moment, and you set aside self-interest, and for one moment you simply do what you prayerfully believe God is calling you to do in that moment. That is a Holy Moment. (Chapter 7)<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We weren\u2019t even thinking about the list I presented recently on <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=877\">fruitfulness<\/a> or \u201cHow can God use me today?\u201d I think Matthew Kelly&#8217;s concept of holy moments and fruitfulness are related, and here\u2019s the list as suggested by Mark Greene in <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Fruitfulness-Frontline-Making-Difference-Where\/dp\/1783591250\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=V6Y2BGYT7NFI&amp;keywords=fruitfulness+on+the+frontline+making+a+difference+where+you+are&amp;qid=1560811355&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=fruitfulness%2Caps%2C215&amp;sr=8-1\">Fruitfulness on the Frontlines<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Model godly character<\/li><li>Make good work<\/li><li>Minister grace and love<\/li><li>Mold culture<\/li><li>Be a Mouthpiece for truth and justice<\/li><li>Be a Messenger of the gospel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, as June and I were talking, we both jumped up to do something\u2014to create a \u201choly moment.\u201d She went to the kitchen to start preparing for dinner for six. I went to use the weedeater on some unsightly growth at the edge of our yard. We were both \u201cmaking good work\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I got a bonus: the garbage guys came by as I was on my way to use the weedeater. I love the garbage guys: they do very important work, so whenever I see them I tell them so. David, the garbage guy, lit up. We shook hands and chatted for a minute about how valuable his work was. So I \u201cministered grace and love\u201d while on my way to \u201cmake good work.\u201d Another holy (fruitful) moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, I did <strong>NOT<em> <\/em><\/strong>create such a moment when we were at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago, and our order arrived much later than I thought it should have&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. (John 15.8, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?\u201d Jesus replied: \u201c \u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your  soul and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as  yourself.\u2019&#8221;  (Matthew 22.36 &#8211; 39, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June and I were discussing \u201choly moments,\u201d the concept I wrote about yesterday from The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity by Matthew Kelly. Can you go out tomorrow and create just one Holy Moment? Not a holy life or even a holy day&#8230;just one single Holy Moment&#8230;A Holy Moment is a moment when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holy Moments &#8211; an example<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-eZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}