tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558023412158904930.post8929458040489615534..comments2023-11-08T02:46:59.622-08:00Comments on Healthy Family, Happy Life: Listen For GodSchullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492785568194446403noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558023412158904930.post-37354731667883937602012-07-23T05:39:26.497-07:002012-07-23T05:39:26.497-07:00One more added thought:
I love a Chapel or anywhe...One more added thought:<br /><br />I love a Chapel or anywhere with quiet solitude, perhaps if quiet music plays (as in a Gregorian chant or soft piano) a place with a Cross and a Bible to think also! I at times have found this type atmosphere and inspiration in a Christian Science Reading room and perhaps as I have always loved some aspects of Christian Science, sort of like my favourite screen/singer Doris Day ( Kappelhoff) who is a kind spirit, Christian Scientist and like me, loves dogs, those kind loving creatures who will love and love being loved plus leave bad moments behind quickly and move on! <br /> <br />So, all the quietness recharges me for Being Church in the community with God for the week until I can rechaege again!<br /><br />Hope this makes sense, Donna and others!Jan-Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14813149854030293572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558023412158904930.post-84297530860951862572012-07-21T08:18:27.482-07:002012-07-21T08:18:27.482-07:00I feel the presence of God through the music at a ...I feel the presence of God through the music at a church service. I am a singer and a pianist. I also feel God's presence in nature,<br />especially at our cottage. I love to watch the birds and listen to their songs.<br />Yesterday, I saw my great niece, who is six weeks old and she is a miracle from God. She is responding to sights and sounds. <br />I see God in so many ways.<br />God bless all of you.<br />LizElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16270714373662167766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558023412158904930.post-81342202890418809912012-07-18T18:13:20.803-07:002012-07-18T18:13:20.803-07:00Firstly, I have to say this upgraded site, with th...Firstly, I have to say this upgraded site, with the 6 sections at the top are inspirational and exciting to see and read. I loved all the pics from a Holylands trip and in the other sections, anything to do with maintaining and improving mind, body and spirit gets me enthused! So thanks. <br /><br />And also thanks for the link at bottom right of this page to get all of your new posts in my email inbox. Great! Yes I signed up! I got this blog post in my email inbox. Made me happy just to see it. It jumped out among all the emails I got from mundane or joke stuff so often arriving all the time. <br /><br />To your question "Do you believe you have to be in a church or other Holy place in order to hear or to be heard by God?", honestly, not only do I not have to be in a Church but actually, being in a church is one of the places I have a lesser chance to fully feel His presence, at least during a service! Yes, I sense Him as we sing hymns and in the opening and closing words of the pastor, but for me there is so much going on between greeters, sitting, standing jumbo screens, whew! <br /><br />It certainly is wonderful to see everyone, I sense Him in Holy Communion time, but mostly I sense His presence when I am back outside and meeting people on my way home, admiring neighbours flower gardens, avoiding squirrels happily scurrying, I, listening to Cardinals and Blue Jays that just love where my house and thus my Main Church is located.<br /><br />Maybe just me but the words of the sermon and God's presence come to me more fully once I am in my garden or at the nearby cliffs and treed ravine I get to later and definitely throughout the following week! A Church service for me is often like going to the theatre and I reflect best on what I saw or heard afterward, more than during the film or whatever I went to see, or the sermon or service I heard.<br /><br />I do not think it is my church as it is doing great work but for me, I feel His presence and wishes most clearly at other times, mostly in quiet times alone and abundantly when among natural settings or visiting a nursing home resident as a visitor or talking to a stranger on a park bench! Weird to some maybe but those are some of the most special times I feel His presence.<br /><br />Out of the blue I do feel His strong encouragement of what I should do and it is always a sense of do this and NOW would be best!! I just Know I should do something or Not do something and it is an awesome feeling! It is so compelling! I do not know how to otherwise explain it but when I have done or not done according to whatever overwhelming sense has gripped me, it has always been so right! I have been Blessed by both His admonishment of me or after following a new path relationally, in business or whatever that I sensed was His pleasure for me to follow.<br /><br />Thank you for the opportunity to pour out what I feel on these questions of Church and my feeling of God's way of "speaking" to me. <br /><br />God is Blessing all, always<br />J-MJan-Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14813149854030293572noreply@blogger.com