Sentences with phrase «for intimacy with»

I have a passion for intimacy with a woman who knows what she wants is by no means hesitant to put me in my place as her little boy and lover.

Past betrayals can make it hard to open, but Red Rose shows us a path for intimacy with a partner.

Often clients reach out because they are complaining of feeling a serious lack of energy, worn out, lethargic, losing muscle mass and gaining weight, having lost their desire for intimacy with a lover and more.

Humankind was created for intimacy with God.

To desire God is good for us because it prepares us for intimacy with him, which is what we are created for.

Those who find themselves in the position of being single and celibate can find comfort and hope in a relationship with a God who longs for intimacy with his creation, Wesley says.

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.

Others find little attraction to members of the opposite sex and hunger only for intimacy with members of their own gender.

Not exact matches

The longtime Nelson, B.C., resident is one of the world's most respected backcountry mountain guides, and he's parlayed his intimacy with the province's mountain ranges into a role as a senior avalanche officer for the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

To gain insight into the best strategies for working with and for a narcissist, I tapped my dear friend Robert Weiss, the senior vice president for clinical development at Elements Behavioral Health, an accomplished author and world - renowned speaker on sex and intimacy in the digital age.

Conversational commerce is an unparalleled opportunity for brands to build highly valuable and valued personal relationships with consumers and use this new - found intimacy to drive brand preference and affiliation.

While earlier restricted to chatbots accessed via messaging apps for shopping, the definition of Conversational Commerce has significantly expanded with the arrival of voice - based personal assistants, presenting brands with an opportunity to build greater intimacy with their customers.

Beauchamp and Barna aren't looking for quite that degree of intimacy with their customers, but they're still unusually connected to the million - plus people who currently subscribe to their beauty e-commerce service.

Many students, longing for deeper intimacy and dissatisfied with what they see on campus, opt out of the hookup culture altogether.

In a new book titled «Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse,» the Youngs encourage readers to have sex with their spouse every day for a week.

For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.

I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings for intimacy when all the while God made humanity to be in loving relationship with another.

In fact, you might just find, as Jonathan Martin wrote, that the wilderness is the birthplace of true intimacy with God for you.

We move together, one body, all for intimacy and beauty, the dance of lovers that know every curve and lean into the unknown parts with full trust in the hands they hold.»

For a number of reasons, therefore, experimentation with models underscoring the intimacy of God and creation may be in order and it is this task, with one model, that I will undertake.

Pray for sexual intimacy with your spouse.

Our hearts so long for connection and intimacy with others that justification has to be employed at the expense of our better judgement.

The historian can perhaps to some extent account for that faith from the personal intimacy which the disciples had enjoyed with Jesus during his earthly life, and so reduce the resurrection appearances to a series of subjective visions.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

(As for physical intimacy with anyone else — male or female — on his part, that's simply none of anyone's business.)

Pray for encouragement for your pastor, pray they would have a deep intimacy with the Lord, a deep understanding of grace and protection from the Evil One.

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

Sometimes social media allows us to «connect» with people for the sake of connecting rather than for the sake of living — gratifying an urge inside of us momentarily, while preventing us from experiencing true intimacy in its most fulfilling context: real life.

Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism for another.

It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of way.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

In the midst of what sometimes seems to be a national obsession with sex, it is often difficult for a couple to discover and cultivate the power of sexual intimacy which is so vital a part of marriage.

Wallerstein provides a chapter on each: separating from the family of origin; building togetherness and creating autonomy; becoming parents; coping with crises; making a safe place for conflict; exploring sexual love and intimacy; sharing laughter and keeping interests alive; providing emotional nurturance; and preserving a double vision.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

The firm sense of personal identity which is a prerequisite for intimacy in marriage and sexual relationships, is also strengthened and affirmed by experiences of interacting constructively with a person of the complementary sex.

At each of the child's growth stages, the demands on parents change; with these changes come new opportunities for and strains on marital intimacy.

It enhances our capacity for intimacy in all our internal relations, be they with others, the non-human world or God.

As is now painfully public knowledge, some of the clergy, met their «need for intimacy» in activity with teenage boys for which dioceses are now paying out millions of dollars in compensation.

Humbly embracing the reality of our weakness and His strength opens our hearts and paves the way for us to walk with our Father in the freedom and intimacy Christ bought for us.

Many of the traditional ascetical practices disappeared from the formation of priests in favour of promoting psychological «wholeness», achieving «psychosexual and affective maturity», meeting the «need for intimacy», «befriending your sexuality» and a number of other ambiguous ideals that could co-exist with what were previously considered mortal sins.

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

Intimacy with God takes time, and there is no substitute for waiting in His presence.

True sensualism, by contrast, is a longing for real intimacy with the world of sensible things.

I have a good job for a guy my age, work out / rock climb as often as I want, am content with the amount of physical intimacy I receive, have visited 13ish countries and see 3 continents.

He recognised that the redemption won by Christ's death was greater than the original state of innocence, for it brought humanity to an intimacy with God that they had not know in Eden.

Awareness of the need for a sense of connectedness with something that transcends human intimacy grows stronger as the years fly by.

Berne also credits the Child ego - state with «the real living of real intimacy» and maintains that, «after the close intimacy with the mother is over,» the individual is perpetually «striving for continued physical intimacy in the infant style.»

It is also a second - chance stage, when partially unfinished developmental tasks may be completed as a foundation for the life tasks of the three adult stages — intimacy (emotional and sexual) in young adulthood, generativity (being a generator or creator) in the middle years, and ego integrity (making peace with life) in the older adult years.

Recreational intimacy may be for newlyweds synonymous with sexual intimacy.

And intimacy is never a once - and - for - all achievement but must be nurtured throughout marriage; with this care, it grows and changes with the stages and seasons of marriage.