Nothing compares to watching a pet grow in mind, body and spirit, and the wonderful personal
fulfillment of knowing you played an instrumental role in helping a pet transition from a life of uncertainty or abuse to a forever home can last forever.
Not exact matches
The clients I
know who have succeeded on the platform usually devote a significant amount
of time and resources to properly listing their products, understanding the nuances
of the company's
fulfillment and other services, participating in campaigns that have questionable profitability, analyzing reams
of data that the service spits out in order to make adjustments to its prices and branding and working hard to live up to Amazon's stringent customer service guidelines.
Fulfillment comes from achieving something and
knowing it will carry on: Raising great kids, being a part
of a supportive extended family,
knowing you have helped others and changed their lives for the better...
I had such a sense
of fulfillment from that marriage that when my husband passed away in 2006, I returned to what I instinctively
knew fulfilled me.
Did you
know that a good chunk
of SEO consultants out there just farm your work out to so - called «white label»
fulfillment agencies?
Developing
fulfillment models that
no longer force buyers into the tired framework
of push and generation — a framework that still exists and can not be disguised with the label
of content marketing or the technologies
of social business.
There is
no - one vying for control
of your business,
no money to pay back and few personal relationships can be damaged because part
of the agreements include a
fulfillment reward which often satisfy the contributors.
We are consumed by our jobs, as psychiatrists, divorce lawyers, and millions
of latchkey children
know all too well, and are locked into an endless pursuit
of the power, cash, status, and pleasure that promise «personal
fulfillment» and happiness.
God's promised
fulfillment includes, among other things, the image
of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be
no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business
of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this
fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?
In our mundane existence, we
know God only partially, and the gifts
of the Spirit appear to be more promise than
fulfillment.
We are
no longer tortured by the dreadful limitations
of man's life on this planet, and while as lovers
of God and lovers
of man, we are bound to do all that we can to spread the invisible Kingdom here on earth, we
know that both the foundation and the
fulfillment of that Kingdom lie beyond the confines
of our present situation.
Requiem for a Dream looked at humans as the kinds
of beings who are driven by a desire for
fulfillment and the good life,
no matter how delusional.
No longer must we live our lives in comparison to a list
of laws, rather we are to live our lives patterned after the
fulfillment of that law, Jesus Christ himself.
I do not
know what to make
of the fact that the discussion
of the
fulfillment of the human person through being joined with a person
of the opposite sex in marriage is not followed by a discussion
of celibacy.
When Kierkegaard finally came to believe that the Christianity
of the New Testament
no longer exists, that contemporary Christianity is exactly the opposite
of New Testament Christianity, he reached a consistent
fulfillment of his earlier understanding
of faith.
Paul
knew nothing
of such language as frustration,
fulfillment, or sublimation.
It is the true
fulfillment now in time
of the Emanuel promise... God with us...
no longer «up there» high above separate in the heavens but now among us, with us, in us, through us, as us, the All in all, the through all things reconciling all to the All.
In other words, you can
know you are using the power
of God when you are actually doing something for God, and when there is joy and
fulfillment in doing it.
Keillor never grew tired
of this routine — he waited for it every week,
knowing it would come, wanting it to come, and experiencing the
fulfillment of expectation when it did.
It is simply the case that sexual relations are «natural» to «embodied» life, and so may be (and indeed usually are) necessary for the wholeness and
fulfillment of individuals
no matter what their marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identification may be.
The tension that Israel
knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity,
of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against
fulfillment — all
of this Israel is mindful
of in the shaping
of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing
of the stories.
His hope came to a glorious
fulfillment, so that Israel, centuries later, recognized this man
of vision by saying, «There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom YHWH
knew face to face.»
These bald summaries, in which we recognize already the outlines
of the narratives in the Gospels, could
no doubt be filled in with detail according to the speaker's ability and the demands
of the occasion; but it was essential to the Proclamation that the plain facts
of the case should be communicated, because it was these that constituted the
fulfillment of God's purpose in history.
Another interpretation the text wants to make impossible is that the
fulfillment of the prophetic promises means that Christians
no longer live by promise, whereas the exact opposite is true:
fulfillment implies that we live by promise more than ever.
The meaning
of divine grace is truly
known only to those who
know that God is love, and that all that he does is done in love in
fulfillment of his righteous purposes.
I happened upon your post — I
know it's a bit old, but located a possible answer for your question about the Jews at the time
of Coponius and the
fulfillment of Genesis 49:10 — hopefully this will help:
We
know too much about the ways
of self - deception and wish -
fulfillment to be satisfied with that.
And he made
known to us the mystery
of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their
fulfillment — to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
Because
of these acts we
know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and in that knowledge we find the promise
of both the coming
of his kingdom and the ultimate
fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy
of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way
of peace.»
But they take comfort in
knowing they have been living focused on what matters most to them: their relationships with the ones they love, their relationship with the God
of the universe and the
fulfillment of their unique purpose on this Earth.
Christ is present in the person in the obvious sense that the purpose
of God, made
known in Jesus Christ, is the
fulfillment of God's Kingdom in all
of life.
But the Christian
knows that the
fulfillment of any life depends upon discovery that life must be lost for Christ, that it must be given in love to a center outside oneself.
The remainder
of this book will be given to further and detailed development
of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place
of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army
know to be the central act
of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find
fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.
The
fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth
of Christ is one
of the most widely
known and widely celebrated facts in history.
«For God has allowed us to
know the secret
of his plan, and it is this: he purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and
fulfillment in him.
Thus,
no matter how precisely she specifies the event or her response, she can not exhaustively specify the event in its full concreteness before it occurs.8 This is why Hartshorne says that «the
fulfillment of a plan, which is always an outline only, implies the plan, but the latter, being more meager in definiteness, can not imply the
fulfillment» (CSPM 122).
Thus for each
of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question
of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form
of our measuring up to the possibility
of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men)
of blessedness, as we
know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we
know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human
fulfillment.
We do not
know exactly what «oracles» means; it usually is used
of Old Testament prophecies understood in relation to Jesus, but by extension it may also have included the words
of Jesus himself:, or the
fulfillment of the prophecies.
We are in the midst
of a history, the total meaning
of which we do not
know, whose limits we can not escape, but which we
know to be directed toward its
fulfillment by a God
of justice and love.
Careerism and status seeking, the sacrifice
of present
fulfillment for some every - receding future goal,
no longer seemed worth while..
Might it have been because he
knew the goal was now within his reach, that after three hard years
of testing, trial, stress and many disappointments, giving, always giving, pouring out his mind, his heart, his very soul, spilling forth so readily the vibrant life that was within him in acts
of healing, feeding, loving, might it have been with some relief he caught sight
of the end
of his long journey, glimpsed the goal which, fearful though it was to us, to him would mean
fulfillment of his task, the long - expected climax and conclusion
of his pilgrimage?
This imminent tragedy is deemed to be
no less Yahweh's doing than the great formative event
of redemption from Egypt, or political self -
fulfillment under the David - Zion covenant.
The Bible is a major source
of how we
know what God wants... which is why it is so important to acknowledge and understand the
fulfillment of prophecies and the divine nature
of the Bible.
In many radiant lives
known to him who even now are bearing what Paul called the fruits
of the Spirit, in thousands
of whom he has read who across the centuries have displayed those fruits, and in the many millions who, passing, have left behind them no written records but presumably have also been characterized by these fruits, the historian sees the beginnings
of the
fulfillment of that purpose.
We do not
know how much time is left before human folly, not the
fulfillment of God's purposes, may put an end to human existence upon earth.
On other occasions it may be a clear and creative movement toward
fulfillment through which persons recognize that their present relationship
no longer gives hope to the growing potentialities
of either partner.
If laws,
no matter how hallowed by use and tradition, collide with the
fulfillment of this love, then such laws must for the moment be set aside.
Fundamentally this means that the master must renounce all hope
of being fully understood, because to understand him fully would mean to become the master, to
know the great mystery
of renunciation, to
know that the highest
fulfillment is possible only in another person.
We hope for the future
fulfillment (although if we are wise we will not dare predict too precisely the form that
fulfillment will take) because we already
know in faith the love
of God, who can do all things.
However it might be explained, God was
known there as holy love, moving to penitence and offering both pardon and a new righteousness, and becoming himself, as thus
known, the ground
of faith in the ultimate meaning
of life and
of hope
of its
fulfillment.