Sentences with phrase «stories of hope for»

Recipients of CCA's finanical aid share their stories of hope for the dogs -LSB-...]

Jodie recently organized and edited two anthologies for charity: Voices from the Valleys and Childhood Regained — Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers, created to help reduce child labor in Asia.

Childhood Regained — Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers, including a middle school edition.

She has also published two clickable time - saving e-resources, Quick Clicks: Spelling List and Quick Clicks: Word Usage, and has organized and edited two anthologies for charity: Voices from the Valleys and Childhood Regained — Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers.

Freelance writer Toiya Finley discusses writing for Academagia and shares her story of hope for other freelance writers who want to write for games.

A Place for Starr: A Story of Hope for Children Experiencing Family Violence Author: text by Howard Schor; Illustrated by Mary Kilpatrick

Not exact matches

«The bulls were hoping for a clean modest beat on this key growth segment which represents the underpinnings of the IBM turnaround story in 2018 and beyond,» Ives wrote.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

Cloud gaming was also the focus of a story I did for Canadian Business, which looked at how large studios are hoping for something like a Netflix of video games to emerge.

It's certainly easier to get attention for more company - focused initiatives if you've built up your own audience on your own property, as opposed to pitching your story to journalists and hoping one of them bites.

«There's a glimmer of a hope for a growth story.

Taking a few moments out of your day to tell your story or set goals for yourself can help you focus on the brighter future you hope to inhabit.

«While communities like Englewood have been plagued by crime, poverty, and a severe lack of opportunity, there is in fact a long - term movement underway to revitalize these neighborhoods and return the story to one of hope, resilience and progress,» said Rodney Hines, director for community investments for Starbucks U.S. Retail Operations.

The developer, who declined to comment for this story, hopes to close on a mortgage in the first quarter of 2018, one source said.

So — as the final touches are put on Detroit's pitch for Amazon before the complex proposal is due Thursday — we can hope that Amazon might find it appealing to commit to the growth and resurgence of one of America's great stories.

Leaving the Botanic Gardens, re-board your coach and drive to Shankill Road, an authentic working - class community, and the Falls Roads area, where murals on almost every gable wall tell the story of its violent past and hope for the future.

I had hope for the new Pope with his emphasis on helping the poor (the importance of social justice is one of best things the Catholic Church gave to me even if I don't agree with most of their stands:)-RRB- but I don't much will change their stories of embezzlement, telling the Nuns on the Bus to settle down and the history of hiding and transferring pedos from church to church doesn't help them either.

But for Christian faith, under every cross and every sad story lies the hope of resurrection.

What if He takes His place in history / With all the prophets and the kings / Who taught us love and came in peace / But then the story ends, what then... But what if you're wrong / What if there's more / What if there's hope / You never dreamed of hoping for

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

Same story when trained the Q - aida and Tali - ban to fight the so - vi - et troops who were considered non religious or infidels at that time and it was the pr - opa - ganda that was used to recruit islamic worriers from all over the Islamic world until they were driven out of afghani lands and until there was no use from them the plot was made to eliminate their presence and to pave the way for a new invasion by the west for those areas with out any fight but seems it did not work out as was hoped for and that's why their troops are deep down in the...!?

From these diverse stories of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.

Her story is full of pain and frustration, but contains hope for the future.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

But the result is life and hope, stretching for generations, changing the trajectory of the story.

From my personal experience of loss as well as from my work as a counselor, my hope for women who've suffered through miscarriage, infertility, or other forms of loss is that we will see our stories accurately rather than through a cloud by condemnation.

«24 The gospel story, modeled on the story of Jesus, does this and more — it not only provides an ordered context from the past (as do all sacred stories) but also leads from the past into the future, for the gospel story, strongly eschatalogical, is a story of hope.

After three years of Islamic State occupation and devastation in the wake of the ISIS war, our local partners are sharing stories of continued hope for the Nineveh Plains and the believers who were forced to flee when militants issued their ultimatum: «Convert, leave or die.»

With debonair desperation they multiply the telling of stories, making them up as they go along, in the hope of finding one with which, as it is said, they are «comfortable» — at least for the time being, until they feel the need for another that will, as it is said, meet their needs.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

I hope I will be excused both for so cursory a précis and for the mild perversity that causes me to see some merit in both of these stories.

The Psalm does not question the relationship of David and Mount Zion to all Israel3 In its moods of deepest despair, the Old Testament story finds hope for the future of all Israel in the certainty that God would realize his purpose in the David - Zion covenant with the re-establishment of that rule in some form.

See Robert T. Handy, A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities (Oxford University Press, 1971), for the story of social perfectionism.

I am currently offering a free copy of my short story, The Lie, and I hope to have another eBook ready to distribute for FREE by the end of the month, but it will be for newsletter subscribers only.

Storytelling is a very powerful tool for passing along stories of transformation and giving hope.

Human life is the search for the love which fulfils the will to belong, and which has passed through the story of love's betrayal and found a new possibility of hope.

If people are going to be this easily offended by one mans story of hope in dark times then I feel sorry for them.

Not only does the Bible offer the stories of these women, but there are glimpses of hope in how God cares for these women and the sensitivity with which He handles the issue of infertility.

It has welcomed, naturally enough, the warmth and the poetry of Deus est Caritas; but it is now hoping that the Pope's first encyclical signals that there will be no more uncomfortable demands for the renunciation of relativist moral values, indeed, that thePope will now bask in his new popularity and become a mellow and liberal guru to the modern world, that his life story will be rather like that of Pius IX but in reverse.

In it, he offers incredible stories of inspiration and hope for people in all walks of life to experience an adventure with God.

If I am intentional about holding space for the stories of pain and despair and wounding, I am also intentional about holding space for the hope and the victory.

Within the Protestant ecclesiastical scene in California there are not many contrasts more colorful than that between Berkeley and Orange County: the University of California and Disneyland, an adult class using Bread for the World material and one deep into the Bethel Bible Series, a Georgian church building hosting the Earl Lectures (Tillich, Niebuhr, Bennett, Marty, Lehman et al.) and a 14 - story Tower of Hope hosting preachers and teachers of «possibility thinking.»

He hosted the event, In Good Faith: Stories of Hope and Resilience, along with the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) and the Interchurch Center.

Faith comes by hearing or listening to the right story, it's true: and the story that I look to for context for it all is the story of redemption and renewal, of restoration and hope that rests only in Christ.

The right story is the one to listen to because it's the one that makes room for all of us, this is the story that holds all our stories with the promise of life and hope, joy and renewal.

To me, the right stories are in the Word of God — Jesus — as revealed by Scripture, by the community, and by the Holy Spirit — and He is a story of life and love and hope for us all, for all the Boths and the Ands and the Neithers and the Eithers.

Some reading about logic might cure you of your backward supersti - tions, but there isn't much hope for that since you seem to have bought into the silly dead - guy - on - a-stick scapegoat story hook line and sinker.

every time i feel like i am at the end of my self and i can not even hold still without breaking something in my self i get a little hope because i relise this is the perfect time for god to swing in and save me so i can have a cool story to tell.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

What this account delivers to us is not simply an interesting story about the beginnings, such as we find in all other myths of origins, but even more the basis for a confidence that God's word can create new hope and promise out of every impossibility.