Sentences with phrase «encounter i had experienced»

This wasn't the first close - encounter I had experienced inside the Volume, and it certainly wouldn't be the last.

Some children and youth whom we encounter have experienced a great deal of trauma in their lives, including being abused and neglected, witnessing domestic violence, or living in homes characterized by legal conflicts and substance abuse.

Not exact matches

The immersive installation gave guests the opportunity to experience some of the sensations the sailors would have encountered, from ice - cold tempoeratures to sounds of fellow crewmembers fighting to stay alive.

«It will be an experience similar to entering a documentary film, one in which you will be able to look around, one you will be able to interact with and, moreover, encounter the surprises we have prepared for our viewers,» said Pazdur.

«The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.»

Apart from their scorpion encounter, Dan and Tracy have had mostly positive experiences as housesitters.

Canada may have a pretty generous policy towards maternity and parental leave — especially compared to the U.S. — but many women still encounter significant career setbacks or experience the so - called «motherhood penalty» when they take time off to have kids, and many employers still wrestle with how to accommodate the disruption of employees going on leave.

«Women founders are starting companies because they have a certain issue they encounter in their life and they think they can create a better experience,» says Zak.

When they give advice they are speaking from the experience of having encountered similar situations.

But what she describes — a man repeatedly pushing sex without noticing (or without caring about) what she wants — is something many, many women have experienced in encounters with men.

For example, in our experience we have encountered compensation plans for SDRs that are based on closed opportunities.

With five years of experience as a solicitor at commercial and property law firm M.A. Legal, Yu now manages his own firm, J2 Legal, which has a particular focus on new and emerging technology, digital, and internet - based businesses and the unique legal challenges they encounter.

An atheist then can justly describe an encounter with a pod of whales, for example, as a spiritual experience while still understanding that he doesn't have an immortal soul.

What you've encountered in your experience is widely - held opinion and widely - taught.

@BillyD:»... if a reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.»

My argument is that if a reasonable, sane and reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.

My preparedness for this encounter had little to do with being some sort of evangelistic expert and more to do with my experience of God's love.

This was the experience of many who have encountered Christ.

Do you now therefore, speaking through my lips, pronounce over this earthly travail your twofold efficacious word: the word without which all that our wisdom and our experience have built up must totter and crumble — the word through which all our most far - reaching speculations and our encounter with the universe are come together into a unity.

In my experience, atheists seem to have a greater habit than most of flaming their beliefs publicly, often to even greater and more hostile extent than most fundamentalist Christians I've encountered.

Play having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy» on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Reflecting on her experiences as a therapist, Horney observed that the most powerful forms of anger and guilt that she had encountered were the anger and guilt of unlived life — i.e., of diminished growth.

The late E. M. Jellinek once said, in effect, that a therapist who had not tried to work with alcoholics usually recommends long and intensive psychotherapy when he encounters such a patient; but the therapist who has had some experiences in attempting to work with alcoholics will be more inclined to phone the nearest AA group.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Blog: On the weekdays of the fast, I will blog daily about what I am learning from the experience... but without rending judgment on the positions I have encountered.

The «Pentecostal» enthusiasm of the disciples arose, not from reflection about the value of a dead man's deeds and words, but from the conviction that that man was alive as Lord and Messiah and that they could testify from their experience of actual encounter with him that God had glorified him.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

My experience with engineers: most of my pilots and NFO's, and others I encountered, had engineering degrees.

«They have been taught the fear of God but when they encounter the Holy Spirit they experience a God that acts in the world today,» he says.

One of the difficulties encountered by many young Filipinos who had been trained in Western classical philosophy (which until recently was practically the only kind of philosophical training that was available in the Philippines) was the inadequacy of such a mode of thinking to articulate fully our experience as an Asian people.

Lutherans Concerned summarizes its theological reflection with the following observation: «Indeed, gay and lesbian Christians, like any other Christians who have had deep encounters with the word of the Gospel, are able to see the word speaking directly and profoundly to their own experience.

But accept my experience for when I taught it in my church, how I have encountered and experienced it in real life and have heard it being taught on the radio.

Any aesthetic which eliminated entirely the propositional nature of art, reduced art to something physical and aesthetic experience to a physical encounter, would be silly.

While admitting the tour so far has been «absolutely remorseless, it never stops for a second», Welby said he'd been most surprised by the «depth of spiritual experience» he'd encountered.

The experience which has taken place in countless factual encounters with evil has been directly embodied in these myths without passing through any conceptual form.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

Personally, I have experienced many cases of stigma - related negative encounters with people.

How often is it experienced as an encounter with the Christ who himself still has a future precisely because the lives of those he loves, with whom he wills to remain in solidarity in the Eucharist, are still at a distance from completion?

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

In my experience it's not unusual to encounter women who are frustrated and feel treated unequally and men who have checked out and all but given up on romantic relationships with women, perceiving that society has given them a raw deal.

The post-moderns have something right, we think, when they point out that our personal angle, our individual experience of our environment as we encounter it, is foundational to the semantic of our language.

The law is never coercion for the person who believes in his heart and confesses with his mouth, the one who has encountered grace, lived this experience, and is living in freedom.

It is of course an uncontrollable experience, but the surprising thing about the Eastern Church, from a Western perspective, is that they have preserved and passed on, from generation to generation, wisdom about how to prepare yourself for your side of the encounter; how to teach yourself to «show up» and pay attention.

But many of these would regard their experience in the Lady Chapel as a vivid form of prayer, in which they may have prayed to Jesus, but about which they would not employ the encounter - language that we use to describe a conversation, and which Luke used of the walk to Emmaus.

Crystalina highlights 21 statements from her own experience and from girls whom she has encountered, each justifying their reason for practising pre-marital sex and she answers each one with truth, love and honesty.

People my age have recently been encountering this question: How did you experience May 8, 1945 (the day the war ended in Europe)?

As a Church, we need to find ways to meet those who have experienced the emptiness of sin and death, so that they too can encounter Christ.

Those who make assumptions or are looking for a fight will have a negative experience; those who assign a positive intent to people in general and are seeking to be peacemakers will have a positive encounter.