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Daily Question, February 11

How can I help to preserve what is sacred to me?

  • GCharlotte

    I may help preserve what is sacred to me by prayer, keeping the sabbath holy and loving my neighbors!

  • reality

    Re-studying everything as it comes up, taking none of my knowledge for granted; only then can I some how stay afloat- doing the work of the mind and the spirit will follow. Thanks for all you do; have a great day ? reality

  • Skeeter

    By not attaching to that which I have no control over;. person, place or things. And by living in present, joyful and anew,.

  • Lioness

    By respecting it and not taking it for granted. Understanding that everything I am blessed with is sacred and being grateful for that everyday.

  • Malag

    By practising what is sacred to me: love, human connection, animal connection, nature, the beauty of the moment, silence, humanity’s beautiful creations.

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    Keeping it safe

  • Hot Sauce
    I think one thing we have lost is effort put into memorizing sacred texts. We focus a lot on the written text, but it's harder to take it in when we don't have those words written in our hearts. I think a new goal I can set for myself is to memorize a verse each week from the Vedas, Upanishads, Baghavad Gita, Lotus Sutra, Mahavaga, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Dhammapada, Filial Piety Sutra, Tao te Ching, Zhuangzi, Analects, Mengzi, I Ching, Bible, Nag Hammadi Library, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Inf...

    I think one thing we have lost is effort put into memorizing sacred texts. We focus a lot on the written text, but it’s harder to take it in when we don’t have those words written in our hearts. I think a new goal I can set for myself is to memorize a verse each week from the Vedas, Upanishads, Baghavad Gita, Lotus Sutra, Mahavaga, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Dhammapada, Filial Piety Sutra, Tao te Ching, Zhuangzi, Analects, Mengzi, I Ching, Bible, Nag Hammadi Library, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospel of James, Qur’an, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Iliad, Odyssey, Avesta, or other sacred texts from different spiritual traditions. This way, I can not only read the traditions but have them in my heart, so as to absorb them into my being and way of thinking.

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  • Eva

    All I can think of is to be truthful (keep myself aligned) to what’s sacred and dear to my heart and keep walking the path.

  • Dusty Su

    Through nurturing it!

  • Elaine

    Planet earth our island home requires my conscious awareness and activism to help to preserve it.
    Canadian democracy is sacred to me and requires my engagement as a citizen to preserve it.

  • Ose

    Take care of everything as good as I am able to and be there with an open heart.

  • I haven’t learned enough that life is sacred, so I’m sacred, my body, the people I love are sacred, what I have is sacred, the beauties around me – oh so many!
    So to protect and preserve them, I have to exercise the muscle of meditation, going deeper and deeper into my soul. And respecting what is sacred to others, because I can start bowing to something I had never thought of before.

  • Cailinrua

    Once again (it happens every time), I am so grateful for the posts below. I’m often frozen when I read the question and very little or nothing comes to mind. Your reflections bring about a thaw. I note what moves me or what I tend to resist. My first answer is: my memory of my mother and father and wanting who they were and their spirit to go on living within me. There’s a lot behind that, but it’s enough for today. Thank you.

  • Elizabeth M Jones

    Preserve means to pickle, maintain (something) in its original or existing state.” all records of the past were zealously preserved”. I first have to identify what is sacred to me. What is sacred to me is prayer, reading the Bible and other books that nurture my faith, speaking about my faith, attending Mass, fasting and other sacred rituals. That means that I must do everything in my power to maintain these sacred rituals and traditions. I must keep on doing what I am doing steadfastly.

  • Mark Piper

    I like to think I should tend to what is sacred to me, rather than preserve it. The church as a garden more than a museum. I rather see myself preparing the soil, planting, pruning, watering, maybe harvesting that which is sacred. But like gardening fruit I could can it and literally make preservatives out of it.

  • Katrina
    Like some others, one of my sacramentals (not to be confused with sacrament, but anything in which I see the Spirit of God, The Holy or experience the grace of God) - is my family. Through the Spirit and grace of God, I feel called to help preserve that sacred nature in our family by passing on sacred values. Some of those values are currently encased in family traditions. But I know the family will edit those traditions as times change. It's the values that give meaning to this sacred nature of...

    Like some others, one of my sacramentals (not to be confused with sacrament, but anything in which I see the Spirit of God, The Holy or experience the grace of God) – is my family. Through the Spirit and grace of God, I feel called to help preserve that sacred nature in our family by passing on sacred values. Some of those values are currently encased in family traditions. But I know the family will edit those traditions as times change. It’s the values that give meaning to this sacred nature of our family that I pray I am passing on. And that comes in my ability to love and accept all the members of our family, to listen to them, to be a model of unconditional love and grace for all with responsibility, and to shower our family in an environment of fun, laughter, comfort, care, hope, purpose and making a difference in a good way for the world.

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  • Bill
    Meditation on today's question pushed me to seek beyond what is sacred to me and to ask, "Why is something sacred to me?" Every person or place or memory I count as sacred would be so only because of God's presence or gifting. I realized that without God nothing would be sacred. People, places, & memories may be significant without God, but they miss a dimension that only God brings to them. God infuses life with His Life. His presence raises the significant to the sacred. I know this sou...

    Meditation on today’s question pushed me to seek beyond what is sacred to me and to ask, “Why is something sacred to me?” Every person or place or memory I count as sacred would be so only because of God’s presence or gifting. I realized that without God nothing would be sacred. People, places, & memories may be significant without God, but they miss a dimension that only God brings to them. God infuses life with His Life. His presence raises the significant to the sacred.

    I know this sounds very abstract, but an example of my marriage helps me to capture the qualitative difference between significant and sacred. My wife ranks as the most significant human relationship in my life. Our relationship changes from significant only to significant and sacred with God’s presence by moving our marriage purpose from “being happy” to being used by Him as an instrument of my wife’s sanctification. God infuses our marriage with a divine purpose beyond our human purpose.

    To preserve the sacred means first to acknowledge the presence of God in our marriage, and second to accept and surrender to God’s purpose for our marriage.

    Today, I preserve the sacred in our marriage by selflessly loving my wife so that God’s will may be accomplished in her and through her in others.

    God infuses all of our lives with divine presence and purpose. To preserve the sacred, we acknowledge God ‘s presence and surrender to His purpose in that relationship or moment.

    Since God is with us, Immanuel, then all of life is sacred.
    “being

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  • Ed Schulte
    What is SACRED, ( aka Every human BE-ing! ) IS the SPIRIT-SOUL. Every thing else in the manifest Universe is changing as it unfolds. The SPIRIT – SOUL is HOLY therefore perfect and unchanging. No “preservation” required, ever! Such lies as “save your soul” etc etc are games of mis-information which Religions etc etc try to play on distracted present-day personalities, so they can try and control them. Simply, BE-ing Well and BE-ing Present keeps one in the flow (and protection) o...

    What is SACRED, ( aka Every human BE-ing! ) IS the SPIRIT-SOUL. Every thing else in the manifest Universe is changing as it unfolds.

    The SPIRIT – SOUL is HOLY therefore perfect and unchanging. No “preservation” required, ever! Such lies as “save your soul” etc etc are games of mis-information which Religions etc etc try to play on distracted present-day personalities, so they can try and control them.

    Simply, BE-ing Well and BE-ing Present keeps one in the flow (and protection) of Divine Grace and there are no places in any of the Heavens more sacred then that.

    Be Well Be Present

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  • SaVaLoS

    Have you been listening to Blue Stahli and Marilyn Manson? Lol jk, your words made me think of a Blue Stahli song. Armageddon maybe? And Manson might argue nothing is sacred too right?

  • Pilgrim

    My family is sacred to me. I honor that sacredness by fully supporting in all the ways a mother/grandmother of adult children is able – love, listening and hearing as deeply as possible, gathering, laughing, sometimes crying, passing on memories and traditions, paying attention. Mother Nature is sacred to me. I honor this gift in all ways possible for me, love and appreciate, consider my actions.

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