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Archbishop
Amarr
PIE Inc.
Posted - 2009.11.30 20:40:00 - [1]
 

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"The Truth Will Set You Free" series of sermons presents sermon #022 entitled "Your Place in the Moment"

Main Entry: 1place
Pronunciation: \ˈplās\
Function: noun
1 a : physical environment : space b : a way for admission or transit c : physical surroundings

Main Entry: mo·ment
Pronunciation: \ˈmō-mənt\
Function: noun
1 a : a minute portion or point of time : instant b : a comparatively brief period of time
2 a : present time <at the moment she is working on a novel> b : a time of excellence or conspicuousness <he has his moments>

Greetings Brothers and Sisters of Amarr and others listening in today. As promised after the encouraging words heard after my previous sermon on Immortality I am striving to write more meaningful and insightful sermons. My goal is to make you question.

The title of this sermon is "Your Place in the Moment". Simple enough I guess. Lets break it down though and analyze the different parts of the title. The first word is "YOUR". This obviously implies individuality and what refers to you. Again simple enough.

The second word PLACE is a bit more difficult. It's easy to say "I'm standing in this place". But what is your place at the moment? When I speak of place I speak of your role in the fabric of history. What are you doing that one moment to leave a legacy for others? You should also ask other questions of yourself like why do I occupy this place?.

When evaluating your place it's important to look at the big picture. As a religious man I spend alot of time in church and alot of time in prayer. It is my place to do so as it is what God has commanded me to do via the holy scriptures. I know my place.

The final word of the title is MOMENT. One explanation of the word could be right now. Look at your watch, see what time it is, thats the moment. What I'd like you to do though is look deeper into the moment and see what brought you there. Each individual moment is a frozen segment of time that can never be repeated. I know when I look at my daily schedule each morning I sometimes wonder where all the time goes. The reality is we have all the time in the world.

Why you ask? Because we have a nearly infinite batch of moments thats why. If you can in your heart divide up your day into 24 hours, into 60 minutes each hour, into 60 seconds each minute then into one brief part of a second... that is a moment.

Moments are a gift of opportunity and blessings but it is a double edge sword. There are those who spend every moment obsessing about something, regretting past misdeeds, hurting others. Just as a moment can be used for good so can it be used for bad. How will you use it?

Your Place in the Moment = What You Bring to the Universe

When you've had a hard day at work, when you've been in battle again and again and wonder where peace is, when you've nearly forgotten your humanity in an obsessive rage, when you've fallen into despair and a life less than God would have you live. Those are moments that are once passed never repairable.

Embrace each moment of your lives. Find God and bring him into every waking moment. Every act you take in every moment is the tapestry of our lives. Some threads are frayed but keeping on the holy course can hold the tapestry together and ensure you make the most of each of your moments.

Archbishop

Lucius Vindictus
Amarr
East Khanid Trading
Khanid Trade Syndicate
Posted - 2009.12.02 06:25:00 - [2]
 
I think I'm not alone in knowing the feeling of being humbled by the universe and it's complexity from time to time. That feeling started when I just graduated from the academy and has only grown stronger ever since. We capsuleers are among the most priviledged beings in Gods domain. But at the same time it can be complicated and confusing as well. Thank you for reminding me that I should seek God in the moment, Archbishop. I will try to seek Him in all things big and small.

Jakiin
Amarr
Khanid Provincial Vanguard
Posted - 2009.12.02 08:14:00 - [3]
 
Edited by: Jakiin on 02/12/2009 08:14:11
A rather... Redundant sermon. Redundant with common sense rather than previous sermons, though. Live each moment to its fullest, yes we've heard this before. Accepting God is something which is expected from your sermons, arguing it would seem petty.

There's little to argue here and less to think on, thus its rapid decline to the back of the topic list. While I rarely find your sermons to be agreeable this is the first time I've found it, well, bland.

Tomahawk Bliss
Minmatar
Fates Assembly
The Final Stand.
Posted - 2009.12.02 08:55:00 - [4]
 
As always, well written and made with the composed discourse I've come to expect from such an educated mind.

Sinjin Mokk
Stillwater Corporation
Posted - 2009.12.02 15:40:00 - [5]
 
Edited by: Sinjin Mokk on 02/12/2009 20:58:21
Thank you for your sermon Archbishop. You are indeed wise.


"By His light and His will."

Sepherim
Amarr
Ordo Quaesitoris
Ordo Magna
Posted - 2009.12.04 03:46:00 - [6]
 
Your place in history, your place in the world. Obvious things in theory, but often enough the most complicated of all truths to find. In most occasions, only time can show us what our place was in the past; ironically, this never answers to our place now, and since we need to wait for the future to know where we stand now, the irony becomes a paradox.

So try to know where you are but, beyond the moment, I'd say decide where you want to be next. Find where you want to be from then on. And strive to reach it. It is in the planning of a future, that our present comes into existence; and it is in the bond between what has been and what will be that the moment obtains sense. Without existance we have nothing, without sense that something is meaningless.

Know who you were. Know who you are. But also, know who you want to be.

Alica Wildfire
Minmatar
Federal Investigations Agency
Posted - 2009.12.04 09:00:00 - [7]
 
To know your place means that you can choose it freely. That you are able to learn to find your place. Not to be put in some mine where your life expectation is about a year at most, after this your existence is wasted and your biomass will be reprocessed to feed the people that come when you are gone.

To find your way -your place- means to have freedom of choice. To have the wisdom of education and the resources to spare for the spiritual search.

It encourages life in a cultural diversity with others that put their experience into books about philosophy and practical advice as well as into more fairytale like stories that all search for this.

The world is no simple machine where you are just a tiny wheel that has to be put into his place to make the mechanism tick. It is a world of wonders that want to be discovered and recognized. That want to unfold their beauty to you without the limit of ideological borders of "this must not be, annihilate this" or something.

I'm fully supporting the idea of the great search that a human has to do. Our Great Walkabout is about this.

Sinjin Mokk
Stillwater Corporation
Posted - 2009.12.04 15:54:00 - [8]
 
Ms Wildfire, you are so close to seeing….

Your blindness is not your fault. It is what has been spoon-fed to you, probably from the time you were in the womb or the crèche.

To know your place means to look within. To listen. To hear what is in your heart and see the path that God has laid out for you. All are able to find their place. Often, it is not what you expect. If it is your path to be in that mine, then BE IN IT. Work, for as long as you can and be happy because you are at one with the divine purpose of your life. If others dangle unreachable goals in front of you, you can go, but you’ll know deep inside that you have failed the deepest part of your soul.

To find your way-your place-does mean the “freedom of aimless wandering. It means to find the way in this galaxy that best suits you. A pig might want to be a bird, but even if you graft wings to it, it will not fly. If it accepts being a pig, it will find the bliss of flight in doing what it does best, according to its talents and nature. You are correct in that wisdom and education are key elements to finding your way.

Often, we Amarrians are accused of not having cultural diversity. It is untrue! We accept all as a part of the greater whole that is Amarr. I love my Khanid culture. I love the genetic structure that is the hallmark of being Khanid and the talents on the battlefield that it gives me. But I am Amarr, and your culture should be a lens to help you serve God and empire better, not a prism to divide your loyalties.

The world is not a simple machine, no. It is a great one! It is made of countless parts all working together. It’s not a question of putting pieces into place; it’s a matter of seeing the blueprint for yourself. There are indeed wonders and beauty. But parts get worn and need to be replaced. If you have a tumor, you do not celebrate it, you remove it. If a part on your ship doesn’t’ work, your engineer fixes it.

I like to consider myself one of God’s engineers.

Your Great Walkabout could be a way of trying to see the path laid out before you. Or it could be a time set aside to delude yourself and fully convince yourself that the path someone else things is right for you is the right path. And only one being can do that for you.


 

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