Sentences with phrase «as a widow for»

Fun loving, honest and truthful, humorous, sensitive, caring and living a lonely life as a widow for the past 4 years.i am looking for a new best friend and soul mate to share my life with..

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In my head, I saw the bank as an evil entity, having no mercy for a hard - working, widowed mom who had come upon hard times.

After continually hearing terms like «entrepreneur's widow» as well as stories about the overwhelming failure rates for entrepreneurial marriages, Harp chose to write her master's thesis on «Spousal Satisfaction In Entrepreneurial Couples.»

The 11 billion pound merger triggered the right for Lloyds and Scottish Widows, which is part of the British bank, to review an agreement struck in 2014 for Aberdeen to manage pension assets on behalf of Lloyds» insurance and wealth units as Standard Life is a «material competitor» to both.

That said, the increase in men's longevity may have a silver lining for women, since they will spend less time as widows trying to support themselves on lower lifetime earnings.

Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, has not been identified as a witness for prosecutors, her lawyer said when the trial began.

While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

He serves as a coordinator for Bet Tzedek Legal Services» Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, assisting Holocaust survivors and their widows / widowers obtain reparation pension benefits for work performed while residing in German - controlled ghettos.

This assumes they're eligible for retirement benefits and their retirement rate is higher than their rate as a widow, widower, or surviving divorced spouse.

If a person receives widow's or widower's benefits, and will qualify for a retirement benefit that's more than their survivors benefit, they can switch to their own retirement benefit as early as age 62 or as late as age 70.

If your widow or widower qualifies for retirement benefits on his or her own record, they can switch to their own retirement benefit as early as age 62.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

It is perhaps well to remember that this Lincoln, who Nuechterlein reminds us mused over the implications of the awful arithmetic of Fredericksburg, was, before his apotheosis, hated by many in the North precisely for it and was known by many there as «the widow - maker.»

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

Even so, Christ wants us, like the poor widow in the gospel, to contribute our tokens as a sacrificial offering for the redemption of our souls.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Adoption — I've always been a big fan of adoption, and considering James» admonition about how true religion in the sight of God is caring for orphans and widow in their distress, I have always felt that as a Christian I am obligated to either adopt myself or strongly support organizations that make adoption possible.

As Christians we have an obligation to»... care for widows & orphans.»

As for the widow's mite, we have praised her devotion a zillion times, but none of us really wants a whole congregation full of generously self - sacrificing poor people, do we?

Elizabeth, who works as a realtor, meets an elderly widow named Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie), whose house Elizabeth puts up for sale.

I do, though, tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me (1 Corinthians 7:1 — 9).

Collections for poor saints (widows, orphans, crippled etc.) 1Co 16:1 - 2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

The general arch of the bible is for loving, committed, long - term relationships, for protection of the orphan, widow, stranger, for the love of God and neighbor as yourself.

Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: «In the Bible, the hardest - pressed of all poor people were summarised as «widows and orphans» for they were the group most at risk and with least support.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

Some early black congregations began as benevolent societies, and all of them were concerned for the welfare of the sick, the widowed and the orphaned.

As a widowed parent to four children, a science teacher and a volunteer for church and 4 - H, she had little time to sit.

1:17: «judge the fatherless, plead for the widow») as well as willful offenders.

Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the pain and suffering she had endured as an aging widow who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.

It is important to remember when Jesus is teaching about adultery in Matthew chapter 19 that what he is saying is that if someone divorces for any reason other than adultery that the offending party has only two choices reconcile with their spouse or remain single and live as a widow the rest of their days.

Working as an analyst in private practice, he also ran bereavement groups and programmes for supporting marriage His widow explains: «Robin emphasised listening as threefold — to God, to your inner self, and to the other person.

I have a close male friend who is now widowed and I am wondering what would be your opinion of us as an older couple living together [not getting married] for companionship?

Tithes were collected and this was a provision for the Levites, as well as immigrants, widows, and orphans.

1 Corinthians 7:8 - 9 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 8 I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

Sadly the church (as the religious in the times of Jesus) has those that like the status but neglect the «true religion» in the biblical case of looking after widows and orphans or caring for the abused.

«As a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquAs a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquas a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.»

As John F. Alexander has observed, the fatherless, widows, and foreigners each have about forty verses that command justice for them.

But because of the danger of incontinence, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband... To unmarried persons and to widows I say, It is good for them to remain as I am.

Then what happens to us unmarried women, as Paul also says it is better for the unmarried and widows to remain that way?

Ex-Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey and Paul Daniels» widow Debbie McGee have signed up to «live as pilgrims» for a new BBC show.

He is perceived by the widow, by the narrator, and finally by us, as a bearer of the power for life.

3:35).68 All of Jesus» teaching prepares us for an examination of Jesus» actions, and his manner of relating to harlots, widows, small girls, foreign women, mothers and women made unclean through illness or incapacitated through injury.69 As Sebastian Kappen says,»....

We get to give to stop human trafficking, serve the elderly and widows... our lives are exciting and overflowing with the Joy that comes Ion following Jesus:) we worship with dance clapping sometimes everyone grabs an instrument to play, we draw or paint what the Holy Spirit leads us to, share dreams go over scrioture watch bible movies it's awesome and we love it, we get to write poems and devotions that we wouldn't have time for before in the four walls as we would b too busy in man's busyworks.

On the other hand we have seen a great (and more successful) national leader say, while war still raged: «With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.»

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder - blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

But whereas Ark Encounter aims to fulfill this mission by drawing people in through its turnstiles, I tend to think we experience and share God's presence best when we weep with those who weep, care for the orphans and the widows, and love our neighbors as ourselves.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.

The obtrusive reference to filthy lucre was apparently necessary, for the Didascalia makes it quite clear that the widows as a class were strenuously interested in their church doles, spitefully attentive to who got what — not widows but wallets, the Greek text puns.