Sentences with phrase «challenge of my life when»

A year ago, I was faced with the greatest challenge of my life when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at 26 years old.

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The challenge of putting your life on paper when you're Richard Branson is there's so much life to cover.

Experiences like this are some of the most memorable you will have in your life and this will be what sustains you when you're facing impossible deadlines and ceaseless challenges.

But individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced with entrepreneurial challenges.

PROS: When you're playing survival of the fittest (and most versatile), your work life is guaranteed to be challenging.

Once borrowers understand the types of student loans available, the repayment plans they are eligible for, and the recourse they have when life's circumstances make repayment a challenge, there are steps one can take to pay off student loans at a faster rate.

«You can't find anyone who doesn't want to live here,» Shockley said, «so convincing the right people to move here to work for you isn't too big of a challenge when your average temperature is 72 degrees year round.

When she is asked what she hopes for in her life, Ms. Xiao, an upwardly mobile member of a two career family making about 60,000 RMB / year (approximately $ 10,000), wants the same things we all want: good health for her family, a steady and challenging job, a better life for her 16 - month old baby than she had.

«I love my church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher said.

And when you mention the topic of being real or being on a journey you get a response, «I think we all find in the message of Jesus the most beautiful, most compelling way to live and the endless challenge is all the things that get attached to this beautiful, simple, revolutionary message and you have to just strip it away.

I find when life becomes painfully challenging that contemplating the Cross of Christ rather than dwelling on my own suffering tends to put things back into perspective.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Some non-mechanical causative principle of order is required to explain, for example, why the molecules of living beings come together into specific shapes, why organisms develop specific characteristics or have the capacity to regulate their metabolism or readjust and reintegrate themselves holistically when injured or when challenged by their environment.

When this happens, it's a challenge to do some more work on the lifelong task of keeping our basic religious life growing.

Maybe «trouble» is too strong, but I've ruffled feathers, and it makes life uncomfortable, especially when you're challenging the fundamental building blocks of vision, strategy or values, or whatever it is that is held dear by a community.

I confess that there was a period in my life when I wondered if praying was merely a historically sanctioned procedure for challenging me to bring the separate aspects of my psyche into some kind of integration.

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that day.

When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of life, social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.

When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thWhen government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thwhen a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.

Christians are better equipped to face the challenges of any society when they do so from within the communion of the saints and the cultural life this communion embodies.

Sarah Bessey's reflections on faith and feminism and Osheta Moore's practical guidance on justice and peace challenged me to live as a more faithful follower of Jesus in those quiet, unpublicized moments when faithfulness really matters.

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

I tried to become an atheist, but it didn't work... When I read the Bible, it's just full of life and challenges... Much better than being an atheist... Maybe you think you're enjoying your life because you're young... But sooner or later... There will come a time when you stop and think about life and what's really behind everything else you see and feel around you... God bless us alWhen I read the Bible, it's just full of life and challenges... Much better than being an atheist... Maybe you think you're enjoying your life because you're young... But sooner or later... There will come a time when you stop and think about life and what's really behind everything else you see and feel around you... God bless us alwhen you stop and think about life and what's really behind everything else you see and feel around you... God bless us all...

The gospel is not just a message about how to go to heaven when we die, but is a full - orbed declaration that challenges all aspects of our lives, including how we treat the poor, hungry, and marginalized.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our soWhen we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our sowhen we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

They liked the «magic» show but when Jesus challenged them to apply His way to their lives most of them hit the road, gone....

I listen, fascinated, when people tell their stories at the front and I hear of their own individual challenges and joys and tales of how Jesus has touched their lives.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

The karate instructor tells Randall, «We are your community... when things get hard, we will be the ones to hold you up,» pointing to the responsibility of every dad in the room to showcase their strength and love to their sons by carrying them through life's challenges.

When the requirements of participation and the definitions of life situations that are promulgated by these groups are not seriously challenged, middle - class religious institutions are no match for them.

In the most challenging, daunting, frightening times in my life, even when I was a pastor's wife (my ex husband was an Assemblies of God minister), my «church family» were the first people to abandon me.

Yet humanity has a deep allergy to this connection and its challenges and it is only when we experience the full force of being connected first to God that His spirit flows into us in a new way and enables us to live Love's way.

It becomes more of a challenge when it involves someone who is going to have gender reassignment and they can't take the dress off... they must live as a woman for at least a year.

Thus we conclude that the three most challenging years in the life of a pastor are: (1) when s / he is thirteen, (2) when the kids are thirteen and (3) when his / her church is thirteen...

When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, raising kids is a challenge, God seems distant, or life is hard, this kind of worship can seem irrelevant and disconnected from everyday life.

Jesus was against strictly political or economic solutions because he thought they were too easy when it comes to the real challenges of human life, Raschke said.

but, there are many accounts written by first hand witnesses, at a time (10 to 40 years after His death) when many others who had also witnessed the events of Jesus life were still alive to challenge any error in the written accounts..

When we build on God we shall find his mercy underlying the next life still offering us the challenge of growth and the chance for new grace.

Chad: [«but, there are many accounts written by first hand witnesses, at a time (10 to 40 years after His death) when many others who had also witnessed the events of Jesus life were still alive to challenge any error in the written accounts..»]

When a friend is looking to you as a living example, you will be challenged to live better — that is, to live a life that is worthy of imitation.

«Niyogi was killed because he was an odd man out in an area where none had dared to challenge the network that some industrialists operated to deny their workers even basic amenities and living wages... Niyogi's murder assumes sinister proportions when seen in the context of the rapidly changing industrial scenario in the country under pressure from World Bank and the IMF.

God has a plan for your life he loves you tell the Lord how you feel tell him of the impossible challenges you face every day and how life is so miserable that you want to die and then say Lord i am sorry i cant do this anymore i just do nt have enough strength please help me i feel weak and i cant go on anymore i need your strength and your power that is why we need his holy spirit if you havent received it then ask him for it.He is our empowerer when we are weak he helps us to be as Christ an overcomer.One of my favorite verses is I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and that verse is for you to have hope and a future i believe the Lord is just waiting to help you you just have to ask regards brentnz

I could seriously write a book on my feelings of living away from family when you have medically challenging children — ug!

He's a bit of a sun worshiper and found the winters when we lived in the limestone city to challenge his mental health just a little, simply because it was so dark and depressing there during the snowy season.

I know low carb + gluten free is a special set of challenging, I got a taste of that when we still lived with my parents and I had to make food not only gluten free for my husband, but also diabetic friendly for my mom.

Shawna McAusland overcame a number of personal challenges when she took over full - time management of Gulf Smoked Seafood 18 years ago, as she and her son fled a life - threatening abusive domestic situation at the time.

I couldn't help but wonder when we had all slowed down on our search for the next big challenge and started being drawn to the feeling of comfort and familiarity in life.

When asked about his experience growing this tobacco, Jeff Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar Co, said that, «this has been one of the most difficult challenges of my life.

But when my stepson, who is 9, challenges me to a race to the corner of Prince and Sullivan Streets, near where we now live in the southern and shabby reaches of Greenwich Village, I tell him I will race him in the summer, on the beach.