For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to
act in mature ways, into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.
If you are
both acting in a mature way, for example being sure to use effective contraception if you are havi ng sex, you might need to reassure her about that sort of thing.
Not exact matches
We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the
mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David
in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always
acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness
in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion
in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular»
ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally,
in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign
in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).
Objective — To make an effective elected second chamber, composed of
mature experienced individuals with collective experience of all aspects of British life, whose principal task is to improve legislative bills during their passage through parliament into law, and whose secondary task is to scrutinize the actions of the government and
act as a watchdog for the rights of the British people, should the Government or lower house appear to
act in such a
way as to undermine these rights.
But the correct
way to handle menopause
in mature dating is to be open about it with your partner and
act maturely.
Broken Age tries to end on a heartwarming final scene, but its an ending that it doesn't feel like the game earned, with
Act 2's stagnant characters never
maturing or developing
in any
way that would give the scene the emotional weight it seems to think it evokes.
Just because they look alike and
act alike doesn't mean they are
mature, the
way PCs became
mature in the late 90s.