Birth parents can continue to love their child, and can hopefully move past the grief by letting go of what might have been, to embrace a broader
experience of acceptance into a new extended family that they have helped to create.
Birth parents can continue to love their child, and can hopefully move past the grief by letting go of what might have been, to embrace a broader
experience of acceptance into a new extended family that they have helped to create.
Third, the minister is encouraged to be accepting of negative feelings, especially those of conflict and ambivalence:
the experience of acceptance, particularly of one's otherwise unacceptable feelings, is especially conducive to personal growth.
Here we look again at
the experience of acceptance.
This is the heart of the New Testament assertion of redemption, and surely this is directly related to
the experience of acceptance.
The saddest part of all this is that so many people are able to find
the experience of acceptance only via alcohol.
The words of confession, penitence, and trust in grace become new words when they are spoken out of
the experience of acceptance.
What light may be thrown upon the nature of the Church through the personal
experience of acceptance and forgiveness?
When the assurance of God's acceptance and
the experience of acceptance by other Christians predominate, I believe that the continuing sense of being called to more and of growing in love of others, is deeply good.
The fundamental reason why it has been so is that AA has developed a means of conveying
the experience of acceptance to the alcoholic.
Not exact matches
In the «grief cycle» model theorized by the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler - Ross, denial is the first
of five stages individuals
experience when reckoning with death, and
acceptance is the last.
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The hierarchy
of needs by Abraham Maslow determines it a part
of our social needs, helping people
experience companionship and
acceptance through relationships.
Bitcoin has
experienced a recent surge
of acceptance by large sites such as Mega, Reddit, and most recently NameCheap.
These include a much better customer
experience (especially on mobile, which is a key driver for e-commerce in emerging markets), better privacy (particularly relevant for cross-border payments), the ability to do smaller transaction sizes, a global and fast - growing merchant
acceptance network, and
of course, for many people in emerging markets, the ability to transact online whereas otherwise they would not be able to, either because they don't have a credit card in the first place, or their credit card is rejected because
of fraud risk associated with a particular country.
A lot
of those who most adamantly oppose the
acceptance of homosexuality are those who have had bad same sex or gender
experiences as kids.
Being blessed to be a part
of Freedom Vineyard, I have
experienced what I would defend any day as true
acceptance despite different levels
of understanding and even clear disagreement on what is sinful and what is not.
On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary
of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
of Jordan, the chief organizer
of the letter
of the 138, on behalf
of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity
of every human person, on objective knowledge
of the religion
of the other, on the sharing
of religious
experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and
acceptance among the younger generation.
We must
experience this unconditional
acceptance of Christ if we are to love others just as they are.
Do they need to
experience Christ's
acceptance of them?
While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal
acceptance of the doctrine
of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine
of immortality to some
of the fundamentals
of religious
experience mentioned above.
All this, which is only a part
of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness
of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts
of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine
acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter
experiences, the active presence
of the living Lord.
However, in fairness to Scott's presentation, Camus does come «close» to «accepting
acceptance» at Tipasa, where the overwhelming beauty
of the setting lures Camus into an
experience where he feels his self is given to him by the natural beauty.
The sense
of presence became the
experience of overwhelming love and
acceptance.
I think that during the grief process
of our internal hopes (for relationship, for
acceptance, for belonging to a group, etc.), we most likely
experience the Kubler - Ross model: shock / denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally,
acceptance.
So, for me I choose to believe, and the
experience I feel and see in me, is the result
of that
acceptance.
Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my
experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single
experience (and this because my
experience includes both the clear, conscious
experience of the regnant society and the dim
experience of other members
of the nonsocial nexus); or, my
experience is that
of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions
of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes
acceptance of a doctrine
of regional inclusion.
For Buber the real distinction is not between a naïve
acceptance of the world and the
experiencing of its tragedy, but between the Gnostic belief in a contradiction that cuts the world off from God and the Jewish belief that «tragedy» can be
experienced in the dialogical situation, that the contradiction can become a theophany.
Its
experience of the extent to which human brutality can go,
of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its
acceptance in wry cynicism
of the venality
of great and small; its
acceptance, too,
of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power
of reason, how great the strength
of obscure passions; how corrupting
of children the possible love
of mothers and the wrath
of fathers; its portrayal
of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles
of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise
of men, individually and in the collective.
I truly believe that love can cover a multitude
of sins — we have been involved in and with people who do fostering and have seen children who have
experienced different kinds
of abuse transformed through unconditional love and
acceptance — sure the pain
of what they have
experienced may still be there but the unconditional love they receive transforms them from broken to not so much broken... if that makes sense?
Therapeutic
acceptance, Browning contends, has its ground in the divine
acceptance universally present to man at a prereflective level
of experience and specially manifest in Jesus Christ.
Cobb believes that Whitehead's philosophy is modern in its
acceptance of relativism and post-modern in its avoidance
of nihilism.121 In addition he is convinced
of its internal coherence and its faithfulness to
experience.
A world view (metaphysics) is significant for religion because it provides a basis for our understanding
of the universe around us, for our
acceptance of the world
of sense
experience, and for our capacity to look on the world as God's world.
In his book Fundamentalism (Westminster, 1978) James Barr argues that fundamentalism arises out
of a particular religious tradition: the revival
experience of conversion and the intensely personal
acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
These include an
experience of being connected to all
of reality, a full sense
of acceptance of what is and is coming to one, a strong feeling
of being influenced by all that is.
He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion
of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical
acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion
of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2
When I examine my own feelings
of self - worth and self -
acceptance I attribute them to a variety
of factors: family and friends, times
of success, times
of suffering (which have probably been more important than times
of success in this regard), introspection, and simply living through a certain number
of years and
experiences.
The therapist can say, «You are well on your way to cure; you simply have to
experience the
acceptance of other human beings.»
They'll be refreshed if instead they discover warm
acceptance of them as persons, and a viewing
of the past as prologue, as a foundation
of valuable — though sometimes painful —
experiences on which they can build!
Believing can be a superficial, passive
acceptance of something never
experienced at all.
Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding
of God, exploring what enables the development
of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness
of experience through the lure
of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding
acceptance of all
experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss
of immediacy.
And they declare that they have
experienced the judgment
of an all - inclusive love on their pettiness and pride, while at the same time they have been the recipients
of a forgiveness or
acceptance which comes when their previous stupidity and cupidity have in some strange fashion been taken away and they have been given the opportunity and occasion for genuine enrichment in fellowship with their human brethren.
He invited tax collectors, traitors to their culture, and sinners to share the blessings
of his table and to
experience the
acceptance which that sharing signified.
Yet we are witnesses to the amazing spectacle
of the uncritical
acceptance of this unscientific and romantic assumption by men who, in every other sphere
of life, pride themselves upon their devotion to evidence presented by «the hard stuff
of the world
of physical and social
experience.»
But metaphysics is significant for religion just because it provides a basis for our understanding
of the universe around us, for our
acceptance of the world
of sense
experience, and for our capacity to look on the world as God's world.
The yearning for completion, for
acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the
experience of physical longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.
But soon it was realized — partly as a result
of the remembrance
of Jesus» own utter humility and denial
of self, particularly as associated with his awful suffering and his uncomplaining
acceptance of it as the will
of God; partly under the influence
of a fresh reading
of the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah; (commented on earlier) and, not least, as a consequence
of the community's own
experience of the forgiveness
of sins — soon, I say, it was realized that the whole significance
of Jesus» earthly life culminated in his death.
Gheel represents a kind
of community
of acceptance which most
of us have
experienced at one time or another in our lives.
He defines doxology as «
experience of the Divine, as it expresses itself in praise, thanksgiving, reverence and joyful
acceptance of the acts God has done on behalf
of humankind».33 Each theology has as its base doxology, «the celebration
of the self - revealing God».
But I can assure you,
of my own
experience, that the
acceptance of this organic and realistic view
of the social phenomenon is both eminently satisfying to our reason and fortifying to our will.