Just as
the experience of dying is both universal and private, so each of these examples combines the universal paradox of faith in God's living power with the speaker's particular situation.
«I don't want to say necessarily that nothing applies, but understanding Christ as a person and His very real
experience of dying through capital punishment should give us a little bit more pause and reflection to think, what does it mean in the totality of the Gospel?
The basic question to be raised concerns
the experience of dying itself.
It is about bringing the power of faith to bear on the human
experience of dying, death and bereavement.
This school combined its theological and historical positions into the normative statement that Christianity centres in a numinous
experience of the dying and rising Lord, not in the ethical experience of the historical Jesus.
Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, new research suggests that the actual emotional
experiences of the dying are both more positive and less negative than people expect.
San Francisco About Blog Zen Hospice Project is changing
the experience of dying through a human - centered model of care.
Our mission is to help change
the experience of dying.
Not exact matches
After
experiencing years
of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who
died shortly after birth.
«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to
experience this tragedy up close as occupants
of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay
dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.
Caminiti
died at the age
of 41
of a drug overdose, and Bet - David attributes his struggle with pressure — the same sort
of pressure you might
experience as an entrepreneur.
I don't know about other industries but in the real estate space [I play a support role] traditional marketing methods are
dying and / or cost prohibitive — print magazines, direct mail, fliers, door hangers etc — I can see why other forms
of marketing would be imperative [especially when there is a brand and some form
of uniqueness to the product or service] but it's been my
experience that the public views real estate peeps as «all the same» and therefor will often choose the 1st one they come across when looking for homes — online.
While much
of the hoopla
dies down pretty quickly after customers adjust to the change, sometimes there are legitimate user
experience and design issues that your team didn't identify during development.
Jesus lived and
died so we could go to church and
experience the revolving door
of blessing and salvation?
«One
of the most harrowing
experiences for me was taking supplies to a quarantined household and watching a pregnant woman
die of Ebola, in front
of our eyes, we had no choice we had to respond and fight back.»
As an oncology nurse that has
experienced many
of these situations, I must say that this was one
of the most moving articles about death and
dying that I have ever read.
You know since his passing, many people have talked to me, and I never realized just how many have had a similar
experience of watching a friend or loved one
die.
I've spent a good deal
of time with the
dying and it's been my
experience that family is always the topic
of concern.
Clearly I'm being berated for something none
of you have personally
experienced as a
dying person.
Reading the account
of how this professor expressed himself about the author's
experience with the
dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature
of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?
In many cultures, when someone
dies, those who have
experienced loss are expected to process their pain loudly, corporately, articulately, publicly and perhaps musically: a noisy, guttural, wet, salty lament is widely acknowledged to be the best way to handle the emotion
of the moment.
As far as magic — I think many things we
experience today would have been considered magic by those
of the past — flying through the air in an airplane, transplanting organs from
dying patients to living ones, sending pictures through the air, even just being able to capture and use electircity, etc., etc..
Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's
of billions
of barrels
of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people
died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with
experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions
of jobs, etc..
He knew that the truth had to be seen, had to be touched, had to be
experienced in his own flesh and in the living, and if necessary
dying, witness
of his disciples.
In his last week in Jerusalem, he painfully
experienced the power and cruelty
of empire, although, as he
died, it was a centurion who said, «Surely this man was the Son
of God» (Mark 15:39).
Yet in his Essay in Aid
of a Grammar
of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity
of individual
experience and weakness
of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and
die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»
The religious act
of belief offers a total structure
of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon
of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to
die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world
of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.
It is argued then, that the crushing, heart - wrenching pain
of watching a child
die, and the sense
of deep loss that lingers afterwards for days, months, and even years in the hearts
of parents, is the pain that God
experiences for an eternity over the death
of His Son.
his decision to convert had nothing to do with what he found, but what he
experienced as a doctor
of dying patients and his investigation
of different beliefs.
«Help the Hospice believes that the LCP has played an important role in improving the
experience of people who are
dying and we support the use
of this tool where staff have been trained appropriately in its application.
So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children
experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life
of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he
died for us to save us.
As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from
dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion
of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they
experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.
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.
sure you canh say Jesus was already dead... then what
of his
experiences... does ANYONE ever
DIE for a LIE that they KNEW to be a lie????? Psychologists have looked into the writings
of Paul..
Be it an instance
of waking, sleeping, eating, crying, loving, hating, or
dying, each
experience is itself «a little birth and a little death.»
Also in our everyday
experience, every sentient being has a physical brain necessary for sentience, and a physical body that feeds that brain, requires food, and is born
of parents, and
dies.
A 1990's European medical study
of terminal patients who
died experienced weight loss
of 1 / 3000th oz.
Furthermore, it insists that he shared our human lot
of hunger, thirst, and fatigue; that he
experienced anger before evil and endured agony at the need to
die.
Steelwheels, Perhaps you can look forward to an eternity
of being a vestigial appendix on the body
of Christ but please understand that there are many
of us who would like to
experience the freedom
of individuality in the here and now and exercise the rights that so many have fought and
died for.
Like an explorer who humbly accepts the council
of those who are
experienced and know, or learns lessons from those who
died on the ice, so we should sincerely appreciate what has worked and what hasn't.
Thus the basic units
of experience come into being and
die away to be succeeded by others, but they do not change.
4) God
experiences die corrosion
of the oppressor's well being.
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.
No other higher religion in the world calls its participants to a full
experience of the pain and darkness
of the human act
of dying as the way to transfiguration and rebirth.
Some couples erroneously believe that their love has
died when they
experience the disenchantment and the grinding
of the inter-personal gears which are required to enable them to grow together.
Grounded in his own
experience as a hospice care worker, Moll carries two related burdens throughout The Art
of Dying.
A study by JAMA Pediatrics, which focused on children in Denmark and Sweden, found that those who'd
experienced the death
of a sibling before age 18 were more than 70 percent more likely to
die during the course
of the nearly four decade study than those who had not lost a sibling.
I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love
of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one
of his last books before he
died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he
experienced the unending and unconditional love
of God in the midst
of it, how he
experienced regret and pain and loss alongside
of the love and tenderness
of God in this dependency.
God could know all the possible ways the grandmother might
die and
experience her death, but God could not know the actual
experience of that death until the grandmother
died.
I have done hospice and, it has been my
experience to see that those who have lived well, not selfishly by pursuing their own self - interests or indulging their desires at the expense
of others, seem to
die well.