{"id":3282,"date":"2006-10-13T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2006-10-13T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T18:51:00","slug":"wow-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Wow moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was taking a kids confirmation class once, I began it by teaching about ‘wow moments’ as times when God is (probably) present – when life seems to hang together with sense and energy and all the lights switch on.<\/p>\n

Via BBA<\/a> I discovered one: “played ‘heroes’ in my living room with david bowie”<\/a><\/p>\n

which I’m sure was a wow moment for Moby. <\/p>\n

It’d be a wow moment for me.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I’ve ever had a wow moment quite on that scale. I wonder what it would be.<\/p>\n

Possibly: giving a Peak Oil presentation to the senior bishops of the Church of England (half of whom know me already). That would be a wow moment. <\/p>\n

Not an unrealistic ambition either (grin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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