Sentences with phrase «brother in need of care»

Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil.

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«But if a person has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need and that person doesn't care — how can the love of God remain in him?»

You do not have to believe what I believe but I truly hope you do because my faith has made me someone who cares more about others than myself, cares more about people than things, and do everything I can for the sake of my brothers and sisters in need, even laying down my life.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Will our attention to Jesus» return cause us to become indifferent to the care of the earth and to our sister and brother in need?

If it causes us to become indifferent to the care of the earth and to our sister and brother in need, then we have already denied what Jesus» return means.

I was just so busy working and taking care of his brother and other people in my family, that I didn't give his potty training the commitment that it really needed.

Actually, all four of the brothers are greeted cooly by the entire town, as their mother was one of the town's most beloved citizens and it's obvious her sons weren't there to take care of her in her time of need.

His mother has died, his grandmother needs constant care, and his family (along with the community in which he lives) are suffering through the turmoils of the infamous miners» strike — especially his father (Gary Lewis) and brother (Jamie Draven) who are both miners on strike.

By 2011, after a personally long and trying decade full of illness in my immediate family, the death of my father and my older brother, both from cancer, and having to take over a certain level of care of my mother, I needed to get away!