Not exact matches
At our recent Entrepreneur
Live event, founders
of well - known and well -
loved consumer brands shared what helped them stay on track with their missions in the midst
of the changes, challenges and opportunities every entrepreneurial company
experiences.
I think that, unless you have
loved ones that require care (because
of developmental or severe physical disability), you should do yourself the favor
of not having to fund their
lives, and do them the favor
of finding their way through the sometimes delightful, sometimes excruciating
experience of making a
living.
Valerie earned a degree in history from the University
of New Mexico, and as a freelance writer combines her
love of history with her extensive
experience in the tourism industry to provide insightful, informative articles about
life in Italy.
«I
loved the
life I had,» says retired expat Brian Gruber, «but it was time for fresh exploration and
experience, and I have little interest in returning to my past cycle
of high stress, high expenses, in an intensely money - focused culture.»
She knew with her
love of Pure Barre, her passion to help others
live healthier
lives through fitness, as well as her business education and
experience, she had what it took to own and operate a Pure Barre franchise.
She
loves writing about her
life of travels and her work
experiences on her travel blog, Barbaralicious, where she highlights the ease
of working on the road and tries to inspire people to begin their own journey
of freedom with this beautiful lifestyle.
They need a believer that can hear the Holy Spirit's advice and thought; that can share from their own past with vulnerability and nakedness; and that can speak / write to the heart - themes that keep the hearer from
experiencing the freedom in Christ:
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, patience, and self - control — the amazing freedom that mixes all those fruits
of the Spirit into an incredible
life.
This is our reality: All day long God is reaching into our condition, sending certain thoughts and desires, arousing certain emotions and calming unhealthy patterns, calling us further towards
love /
life, showing us that he is to be
experienced in every piece
of His creation and known in every ordinary fraction -
of - a-second.
Oh go eat it, the
love that people have actually
experienced in their
lives is so much more real than the abstract notion
of an afterlife.
You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God
of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith
experience to guide the path
of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the
love of God — i.e. true
love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting
life» by having his / her sins forgiven.
Sex without
live is primal and feels dirty (my
experience) but where
love is it is perfect even when it is between two
of the same gender.
By the end
of our
lives we have either
experienced and given
love, kindness and forgiveness or we haven't — if we have our God and peace is there.
Hatred is what they certainly project, not
love for the embryos, which is a piece
of nonsense no one could
experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against
love, against any value that brings happiness to human
life.
is that worth throwing them in jail for a «long long time» or worth the shedding
of more blood... as soon as the people give up their
lives for the sake
of others, then the masses will not only know what real
love is, they too will
experience something as great,!
Such great
love that Jesus was willing to take the consequence
of our sin so you and I could
experience life and the purpose we were designed.
I believe that we are all born with an intuitive faith in the goodness
of life; but it is a fragile faith that can be easily lost when we
experience cruelty rather than
love, often tragically early in
life, from those whom we intuitive trust and who are often unconsciously passing on their pain to others.
I have learned from this
experience, and to me the charm
of living is to
love and learn, so we are halfway there:).
Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual
love even though he spoke
of having
experienced it in his own past (at one time, he said, he had
lived with a male lover for 14 years).
The
lives of such congregations often appear to be centered in the consequences
of the gospel — peace and justice — not, in the heartwarming
experience of God's saving
love in Christ Jesus.
I still have a plan for Israel I came out
of this
experience with the LIGHT turned on, in
love with Jesus, knew i was SAVED, the Bible became a
living book etc..
Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we
experience in this
life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our
lives — it reveals God's
love and personal concern for our development, reminding us
of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way
of branding / choosing us as his own...
The goal
of the Christian
life is to be found in the
experience of «perfect
love,» and the eschatological hope is expressed in similar language.
Everything we read in the Bible surely has to absorbed and considered in line with our
experience of God — for those
of us who have travelled with God for a long time this
experience (I hope) bears out a
loving, caring, intimately involved Father whose example in the
life of Jesus is all about
love — tough, body - taking - the - brunt -
of - whatever -
life - throws, with the deeper soul fixed to God's promises
of what lies beyond.
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
It wasn't until I
lived through the trauma
of miscarriage that I
experienced my need for God's redemptive
love in a way I never had before.
The great tragedy in human
life is that after
experiencing the great
love and mercies
of God we become indifferent to God.
But, in truth, that knowledge
of God's
love didn't always translate to
experiencing that
love in hard parts
of my
life.
Their need to know the
love of God and
experience it in their
lives is palpable.
The reality is that every one
of us has created some negative pattern in our
lives, usually at an early age in
life, where we discovered that when we
experienced painful feelings, usually around violations
of love (identity) and trust (safety), we found a way
of coping that helped us survive.
Clearly, there will be a difference between the
experience of the man who from his childhood days has known and
loved Jesus, who has never had any real doubts, who has never, so to speak, been away from home, and the
experience of the man to whom Jesus Christ is a new discovery, who has wandered in the deserts
of infidelity, who has stained and blotted his
life, who has been in the far countries
of the soul.
It takes an adult self - consciousness — the
experience of an adult
living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part
of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's
love or Christ's gift
of salvation.
And if such
experience helps to make your
life healthier, more beautiful, more complete and more satisfactory to yourself and to those you
love, you may safely say: «This was the grace
of God.
As for your own personal
experience, you say that you had the normal fight for independence which characterizes healthy teen - agers, that you
loved your parents but welcomed escape from their daily supervision, that you are now on your own and outwardly in charge
of your
life, but this, you say, does not solve the problem
of conformity.
Now if we turn from the
life of Christ to our ordinary
experience of people, most
of us would probably agree that there are certain types
of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out
of their self -
love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive
love is trying to do.
For Holloway, the Eucharist not only feeds the personal
love of God as a
living experience, it also engenders
love and care for others in the measure that we are conformed to the personality
of Christ whom we have received.
But we can say at least this: the essential meaning
of the concept
of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have
of the unexpected and unprecedented
experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances
of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction
of his
love and care.
I began this chapter by stating that through my
experience as a pastor I have been moved out
of a rigid, moralistic legalism into what I believe is a more
loving and more compassionate attempt to discover the best alternative within the particular circumstances
of each person's
life.
Nothing «turns into» agape, but
love experienced in depth within the context
of faith in God's agape becomes an occasion for gratitude, humility and the celebration which expresses the
life of God's people in his world.
... [E] verything about human
experience suggests that
love is better than hate for the purposes
of living happily in this world.
In the Bible sin is not a deed; it is a description
of human
life separated from the
love of God and
experiencing the reality
of lack
of love, inadequacy, and insecurity, and seeking to create the missing ingredients ourselves and always at someone else's expense.
This is a very healthy corrective to a great deal that has unquestionably disfigured the history
of institutional Christianity; for instance, the sometimes subtle but persistent belittling
of the richest and most profound
of human
experiences, as if the joys
of human
love were somehow suspect, and not among the most sheerly precious
experiences that
life has to offer.
God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good
of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we
experienced the brunt
of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern
of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind
of humanitarian concern and
love that trancends races and culture, A kind
of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost
of human
lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences
If, however, instead
of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ,
experience of the
living God present by the power
of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart
of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle
of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness
of divine reality and
love.
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.
Please don't turn away from the
love and support that fellow Christians can give you which is so vital to the Christian
life, based upon the actions
of the few you have had bad
experiences with.
This is not to say we are made to have some mystical
experience of certainty, but that through the ministry
of the Holy Spirit we are made to taste the reality in our own
life and times -
of God's goodness and
love manifest in Jesus Christ.
I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine»
of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe
of life,
love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist
of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn /
experience can be termed as the Divine acting.
Santayana implicitly agrees with Whitehead about solitariness, for the
love of life in the consciousness
of impotence is an utterly solitary
experience — as solitary as death, to which it has some other dismal similarities.
I know in my own
life, this tension has sometimes cause me to hesitate to express hope or the vastness
of His
love for us in an effort to avoid dismissing one's
experience or suffering.
I would say that Yahshua
living inside any person that has died to this world, the flesh, and the demonic allows them to
experience the mystery
of godliness — Yahshua in them
living out the God kind
of love, in which there is no flaw
of any kind.