In
Luke 6:12 it says “One day soon
afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.”
As I was reading this passage it reminded me of the profane and sacred time and
how the two are very different. Personally, I see profane as this time that one
spends living for themselves and not very focused on the bigger picture.
However, when I think of sacred time I think of one being much more selfless in
the time they spend, that their specific time is very important and has great
value. In the passage above it talks about how Jesus went away to spend time
with God, his father. He wanted to make time for something so significant and
made sure he was isolated wherever he went to spend that time so he goes to a
far off mountain. I don’t think Jesus looked at this time as something profane,
something that had a time limit. I think he saw it as so much more than that,
something very sacred to him. He had no sense of time while on this mountain,
in fact, I can picture him being completely carefree and simply enjoying time
with his father. Similarly, when I go to spend time with God or have a “quiet
time” as some may call it, I have no agenda on my mind. I also prefer to be
alone and in my own space so that nothing can intervene with me as I spend time
with God. This is a very sacred time for me. I never really thought about the
parallel of one’s own quiet to how Jesus went to a mountain to spend time with
God. In fact, in both scenarios a very similar concept occurs. In the passage,
God gets away from everything and just spends time with his father not worrying
about anything else. In my own way, I am also getting away and spending time
with my God without weighing down or dwelling on the things going on in my
life. Eliade Micrea says in her except, The
Sacred and Profane: The nature of religion, that “when the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there
is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also revelation of an
absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expense.”
When I read what she says, in a lot of ways I see my own quiet time with God
being represented by that. I am able to escape my life for just a little bit
and live in this “absolute reality” and it just makes everything feel so much
different. I feel alive, whole, refreshed, and it really makes me realize how
important and evident the sacredness of that time really is.
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