Sentences with phrase «feel i grew up in»

Then I think back to that awkward drive home years ago, and the subtle alienation I felt growing up in a suspended state between the neighborhood in which I lived and the one where I spent all of my time, without having a solid footing in either.

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Most children would feel unstable growing up in that kind of an environment.

But with the economy growing so much faster than projected, policy makers may well feel compelled to advance their plans to raise interest rates in order to keep up.

Admittedly, this kind of candor can be awkward for those of us who grew up not talking about money — but the reality is that today's skilled workers feel justified in seeking out compensation information.

Right about now, you start to get a little niggling feeling starting to grow in the back of your mind suggesting that you might have made a really big mistake - but you aren't going to stop now because you've got too much to prove to yourself and to everyone else, so you roll up your sleeves and go for it.

«Every Akron kid grew up seeing the Wingfoot in the sky on the blimp and feeling pride in our community,» said LeBron James in a statement.

Selasi was born in England, grew up in the United States, and has lived and felt emotional connections to a number of other places, for various reasons.

In an interview with British tabloid Mirror, Schultz says: «Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks.

You grew up in a time when you had access to only what was within your proximity — which meant as the world expanded (and more rapidly with the internet), you were left with a feeling of «I remember when things were simple.»

The Nielsen survey also found that recessionary sentiment is growing in Malaysia, up a «notable» 16 percentage points in the third quarter, with «nearly nine in 10 Malaysians feeling the country is currently in a state of recession.»

Anyone who has read Richard Williams's 2014 memoir, «Black and White: The Way I See It,» knows how much resentment he felt about the racism he faced growing up in the American South and how intent he was on preparing his tennis - playing daughters to handle being outsiders in a predominantly white sport.

Still, even the most effective content marketers are likely to feel some pressure to keep up with the growing demand for valuable content, which can result in the desire to add more resources to their arsenal.

Children growing up in Selamta homes were healthier, did better in school, and reported feeling safer and more loved than children growing up in orphanages or on the street.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

I feel I'm qualified to be president because afterall, I did grow up in the same trailer park as Sarah Palin.

This makes it difficult for us to keep growing, but in the moment it feels like keeping the group pure and safe or standing up for principle / tradition, and that's how we rationalize it.

Growing up in a church where I seen this all the time I always felt like the odd ball b / c I always found it awkward that we «must» worship.

He was probably right, but I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he also only felt so strongly about the issue because of the kind of church he grew up in.

The biggest thing that I had to deal with was not feeling like God was mad at me every time I made any kind of a little mistake, because in the home that I grew up in you just never knew what was going to set my dad off.

I grew up in a household where my mom would downplay every negative thing that happened to me, making me feel unimportant with unimportant problems.

As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.

It's been more than thirty years since Jesus turned everything right - side - up for my folks and I felt the weight of that choice at the table that night, watching all this little kid crew, another generation, all perched around my kitchen table by the light of candles in the darkness, telling us grown - ups all the things we already knew about Jesus.

Now Rachel will grow up loved, delighted in, feeling beautiful and smart, with her dignity and defenses intact.

My wife and I have felt this way for some time, but of course, growing up in the church we were always taught we needed to end our prayers this way.

«If you had ever experienced the thought world and the feeling world of unbelief in which I grew up, you would see how very important those beliefs are.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

After growing up in Guatemala and facing multiple disasters, I tend to feel less fear and more cold sobriety.

He grew up in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Minnesota and had an established career in software development consulting when he felt called to ministry.

He was always going to grow up in north Omaha; he was always going to feel called and special and heroic; he was always going to show up in Tulsa with the aura of leadership conferred by the trifecta of sports and academic scholarships and youth group intensity.

Many of them grew up in minority - specific churches and felt that you de-legitimized those churches in your sermon.

I was always going to grow up between the prairies and the Rockies; I was always going to feel like a baffling mix of pragmatism and mysticism; I was always going to show up in Tulsa ready to become who I really had wanted to be all along.

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

I grew up in the church all my life but I was following God's path, I didn't want to let God take control of my life but then at one point of my life I was going through a lot, stuff that a teenager shouldn't be going through but then I told God that I want him in my life to take control and to write out my path not me and right when I said that I felt happiness, I felt love, I felt and I still feel (what God wants me to do) that I have a purpose in life.

«I grew up feeling like a second - class citizen... As I grew older I really felt I didn't belong in Congo even though that's where I was born.»

ok... I think there was 1 question in there that was a Biblical reference... so why should evangelicals score 100 %??? I feel sorry for all the venemous people that are so full of hate... try to grow up a little and open your mind and let God in so He can heal all of those hurts so you can let go of the hate and poison in your hearts!!

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

I think I keep feeling the Lord unravel me in a different way and grow up my insides.

He grew up in Catholic schools and says he feels strongly about his faith and the role it should play in Italy.

One of the great new hopes of the world is that the media of mass communication, and the shrinkage of the world in terms of transportation and so on, are going to lead to a rapid build - up of a world - wide network of communication and of mutual rewar4s, out of which I think can grow a feeling for all mankind.

Weighing heavily on young adults is the feeling of bewilderment and betrayal from their experiences growing up in unstable and fragmented families, as well as the betrayal in their own romantic relationships.

From her therapeutic work with women, Miriam Polster describes the ways in which our sexist society alienates many women from their strengths, teaching them to retroflect their real feelings and manipulate men to try to get their needs met: «Growing up a woman in our society leaves a psychological residue that cripples and deforms all but the most exceptional woman....

Despite growing up in church and being fairly comfortable with the church culture, Christian music, novels, and other forms of art have always left me feeling bored, restless, and honestly, a little fed up.

«It was something I felt personally, dealing with it in my family and with other friends I grew up with who were in prison for quite a long time or in and out of jail for one reason or another,» he explains.

I know that the preacher's wife in my church growing up was very constrained; she didn't feel free to express any negative opinions at all, even just to talk about her kids being a handful, because the pastor's family is supposed to be the «example».

My Facebook feed is constantly filled with links to the daily outrages — political, social, and religious — that preoccupy my friends, so it's not as if I need a ninety minute expose on Internet pornography to make me feel like the world around me is a darker, uglier place than the one I grew up in.

Growing up in a faith that «just didn't feel right.»

I have been fortunate enough to grow up in a loving and Gospel proclaiming inspired (liberal, many people call it) diocese of the Episcopal Church and have always felt very included in every aspect of my life in the church.

Joseph Campbell felt bad about his conclusion even if it was correct since living in a fantasy world like he had done when growing up as a choirboy looking at such church beauty was magnificent.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

If you did not grow up in the church, then you might have had the experience of feeling judged, ridiculed, shamed, or even hated by certain groups of Christians.