"It takes a lot of energy to get through those days and take care of each other," said Gay. "My family is blessed because Josephine's birthday is Dec. 11, so she's given us this eternal positive focus for December.
There are many related ways to characterize the split: a push to better this world as well as save eternal souls; a focus on the spiritual growth that follows conversion rather than the yes-or-no moment of salvation; a renewed attention to Jesus' teachings about social justice as well as about personal or sexual morality.
The Body of Christ is rising today where it is growing less self-centered and inwardly focused, and living with its heart turned toward the cosmic and eternal, its attention focused intently on loving God and neighbor.
It's all the news that's not only fit to print, but at this specific moment in time, also fit to reinvent, though the eternal challenge of focusing on what's most important — in a day when it's easy for everyone to create content — may remain as elusive as ever.
It's all the news that's not only fit to print, but at this specific moment in time, also fit to reinvent, though the eternal challenge of focusing on what's most important — in a day when it's easy for everyone to create content — may remain as elusive as ever.
She says parochial school teachers' focus on eternal punishment for sins rather than positive aspects of faith turned her off and attending heavily structured masses left her spiritually unfulfilled.
The Reverend Stuart A. Kenworthy, Vicar from the Washington National Cathedral, in his moving words focused on eternal love and life.
This means that I'm committed to a life of faithful obedience that is focused on eternal and not external, temporal things.
The video's main conceit focuses on "eternal life"—quite a large narrative to set in motion, take it that the majority of the video features the movement of slim metallic rings, constantly curving and rotating.
For them, however, Chinese New Year is just another day to focus on the eternal and to let go of earthly attachments.
Borzage's heroines are real and not real, strongly defined individuals who seem to glow with an indefinable, eternal quality — conceptualized by soft focus and warm backlighting.
