Companion animals from all over the world are counting on us to save
them from lives of pain, suffering, and uncertainty.
Nevertheless, I also am a firm believer that good things have and will come
from my life of pain.
Sarah calmly tells her father that he can «let go» — slip away
from his life of pain and suffering.
It is the local humane societies, SPCAs and animal care and control agencies here in the Bay Area, not ASPCA, who are (quoting from their letter) helping «neglected cats rescued from a hoarding situation... a puppy found brutally beaten by the owner... starving, injured horses rescued
from a life of pain and despair... pets separated from their families in the wake of natural disasters.»
Not exact matches
I sat standing 1 foot away
from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years
of his
life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me
pain in my
life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.
And unless your plans include moving to another country — almost any other country, really — you are not going to get any relief
from the
pain of living in a nation that values guns over people.
I had a hard time loving because
of pain and hurt in my
life...
from none other than my family... but I asked God to allow me to see them through his eyes... that helped me pick up the pieces... hand them to Jesus and allow him to lead me and guide my way to him... that is the only hope
of life we have.
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.
With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for
life... I have held the hand
of an old person as they slipped
from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room
of a man
of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing
pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering
from cancer at a young age.
It is a distortion
of life if one supposes
from these facts that
life consists essentially in fleeing
from pain and striving for pleasure.
The individual can not escape his incorporation in the group and his never ending dependence on it; it is the master fact
of his experience; his whole
life, apart
from his most intimate bodily aches,
pains, and delights, consists in the shared
life of the group.
Knowing their stories and getting to really know them includes getting to know where they come
from and discovering some
of the things that have been their joys in
life, as well as the things that have caused them
pain.
That moment
of awakening inevitably has to be a moment
of anguish,
of agony, and
of repentance, because it is only
from the
pain of awakening to the contradiction in one's
life that the energy to change arises.
In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day
of shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or
pain, for the old order
of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound
from healing, in recognition
of our
living still in the old order
of things.
Am not sure if you are in the dark or the Darkest
of all Darks and only God would judge that and may have mercy upon your soul which is clearly suffering the emptiness in
life and would do be in
pain after death and again on judgment day but the hardest is when you are to pay your dues in the Hells
of Fires where it is said that every time skins are burnt they are replaced with other fresh skins to no end if no mercy
from God?
Maybe this dual approach to
pain makes sense, since there's no obvious benefit
from simply enduring bodily illness, no hope
of overcoming a bad headache by
living through it.
The
pain and anguish we feel every day, the suffering
of being separated
from God that has so numbed our souls, the despair and fear that drives us to
live as we do, was felt for the very first time by Jesus on the cross when sin came upon Him.
Nothing can make me happier than seeing those whom I love be happy and free
from the
pain that they had been under for the last 3.5 years... I do deeply regret that I hid
from the public the abuse that I have
lived with for most
of our marriage and I ask your forgiveness... Three months ago Saeed told me things he demanded I must do to promote him in the eyes
of the public that I simply could not do any longer.
What those consequences will look like is anyone's guess, but justice cries out
from the graves
of the innocent killed and those victims, widows and orphans still
living with the wounds, scars, and
pain of the actions
of one man.
And so, Augustine points «away
from the current popular ideology
of the triumph
of the martyrs to the smaller
pains and triumphs
of daily
life.»
I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's vision
of human
life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed as well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created
life, and a sense
of the
pain and anguish that come when that
life is fully redirected to the One
from whom it comes.
A song
from the 70's by Keith Green called «Make my
life a pryer to you» is one
of my all time favorite song that comes
from much
pain and suffering in
life.
HeavenSent — that passage
from Isaiah talks
of rotting corpses, and therefore death, not
of everlasting
pain of a still -
living body.
be just as real (and speaking
from the
pain of life) if he were still alive and writing now (being older,
of course).
Does it not appear as if one who
lived more habitually on one side
of the
pain - threshold might need a different sort
of religion
from one who habitually
lived on the other?
«Perhaps the greatest
pain women bear
from the church is the verbal offer
of liberation while being pushed to the periphery
of the church's
life and ministry.»
Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth
living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (
pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant
from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs
from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «
Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like
Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant
from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual
life of our family, I'd like
life of our family, I'd like to..
Lacking both faith in an afterlife and trust in a Lord
of life, those who exclude God
from their temporal horizon are left then only with the
pain, never with value or meaning.
Most especially, she knows, probably
from the beginning, that the
life she will nourish must cost her her own, and she anticipates necessity by giving her young child everything most needful, trusting that a happy and loving childhood will see him through the sorrows and
pains of tomorrow.
little bastard I bring
pain that is chronic A
pain that will not go away I am the hunter that stalks you night and day Every day everywhere I have no boundaries You try to hide
from me But you can not Because I
live inside
of you I make you feel hopeless Like there is no way out MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME My
pain is so unbearable that you must pass me on to others
I can transform a woman person, a Jewish person, a black person, a gay person, an oriental person, a precious child into A bitch, a kike, a nigger, a bull dyke, a faggot, a chink, a selfish little bastard I bring
pain that is chronic A
pain that will not go away I am the hunter that stalks you night and day Every day everywhere I have no boundaries You try to hide
from me But you can not Because I
live inside
of you I make you feel hopeless Like there is no way out MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME
The road led Adam and Eve
from a fairy tale existence into the world
of real
life, where they had to toil hard just to exist, watch one
of their sons murder his brother, and experience the terrible
pain of what it means to be human.
Eve may be the goddess Ninti who in the Sumerian creation mythology was a goddess
of life and the «goddess
of the rib», because she healed a
pain in Enki's rib, a
pain he suffered
from a curse placed upon him
from eating plants in the garden.
Whatever through the pressure
of sin, evil communion
from others,
pain and ignorance can not be repaired or even healed a little in this time, is still covered by that
living, personal, continuing redemption which consummates beyond the grave what could not be operated here.
It is as though empirical theologians accepted Whitehead's claim that, apart
from the consolations
of religion,
life seems to be «a flash
of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass
of pain and misery, a bagatelle
of transient experience» (SMW 192).
He encouraged the pilgrims to «learn
from her how to
live with the clear conscience
of those who do not bend to human compromises,» to be inspired by «her example
of strength in the moments
of greatest
pain,» and to «imitate the solidity
of faith
of those who trust in God.»
«I am so far resigned to my lot that I feel small
pain at the thought
of having to part
from what has been called the pleasant habit
of existence, the sweet fable
of life.
Apart
from religion, Whitehead was to write, «human
life is a flash
of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass
of pain and misery, a bagatelle
of transient experience.»
Because, before him he sees fifty years
of life ahead, and all the drama and achievement, and all the sorrow and
pain of human
life,
from springtime to the grave.
Sometimes we feel like the main point
of life is just getting through it so that we can eventually die and be free
from the
pain and frustration
of life.
The fact that tragedy,
pain, and loss are part
of the fabric
from which our
lives are woven becomes increasingly inescapable in the mid-years.
In particular, they do not resolve the conflict between two powerful sentiments: a wish to preserve human
life from its first moments
of existence and a desire not willingly to impose upon a child a short
life of pain and misery.
Surely, however, our psychological
life is constrained by efficient causation — much
of it
from our bodies, in the form
of hungers, thirsts, desires,
pains, and pleasures — as well as by ideal norms.
Remeber the sacrifice you made in sending Jesus the Messiah, remember the sinless
life He led and the
pain He bore for all
of those who sinned and are so vary far, far away
from you,
living in darkness, blinded by the false gods
of this world and the lying deceiving spirits that say man's reason is all there is in
life.
We run
from pain, we are afraid
of pain, but by leaning into it, we relax into it and often we can ride that
pain right into release and new
life.
If God had not done this, we would have forever been suffering the consequences
of our sins, but since Jesus died for us, though we still suffer
from sin in this
life, a day is coming when we will be freed
from the presence
of sin, and will no longer experience the
pain, fear, and loneliness that comes with it.
And this means that our
pain — the
pain of having our deeply ingrained inclinations and desires blocked and confronted by God's demand for purity in the gospel — far
from being a sign
of our failure to
live the
life God wants, may actually be the mark
of our faithfulness.»
The prevention or healing
of these person - hurting escapes
from mid-years
pain involves becoming more growing, intentional, and generative persons, and thus discovering the zest and the lift which the Gospel
of John calls «
life in all its fullness» (John 10:10, NEB).
Yet, as Sophocles in Oedipus in Colonus has the father say to the daughter, «One word frees us
from all the weight and
pain of life: that word is love.»
Innovative
life enrichment and marriage renewal programs in our churches, schools, and social agencies can help mid-years persons confront the challenge and the choices, the
pain and the possibilities, and
from this confrontation begins the adventure
of new growth.