These verses seem especially significant at Christmastime as we think about
the joy we have on Christmas morning as we celebrate Emmanuel, «God with us.»
Not exact matches
The happy faced emoji spewing tears of
joy isn't just the «word of the year,» it's a certifiable craze — and one that brands
have quickly moved to capitalize
on.
I remember
on one of her Facebook posts she wrote that she
would never feel pure
joy again.
But when you focus
on small acts of kindness,
on love,
on opportunity and hope, you will
have more opportunities and
joy will be yours for the taking.
And certainly sitting
on a South Pacific beach isn't going to do your happiness levels any harm, but according to recent research we
've posted
on previously, people are actually pretty bad at guessing which recollections will bring them the most
joy.
It is about the
joys of spending the small amount of time we
have on the planet with the people we love.
Before my experiment of a year without flying, I
would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness,
joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so
on didn't depend
on flying.
While this figure might not
have market watchers jumping up for
joy, «it is a positive sign that more people flowed into the labor force and shows the labor market is
on the right track,» says Kurt Rankin, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group.
On any journey, you
have times of
joy and more than a few setbacks.
These may sound like slightly airy fairy (if quite pleasant) suggestions, but science shows that adding small does of
joy to your life can
have big impacts not only
on your mood but also
on your productivity.
What
have you spent money
on that failed to improve your happiness, and what purchases truly brought you
joy?
Happiness experts
have plenty of other tips to offer
on how to get the most
joy out of your vacation, while other research shows how to squeeze every last drop of enjoyment out of your holiday.
From his inflammatory comments about immigration and women to attacks
on other politicians and countries around the world, Donald Trump
has continued to infuriate his Republican opponents and create
joy among Democrats and the media.
[00:08] Introduction [02:50] Tony introduces Ray Dalio [05:30] Ray's upbringing and early life [06:00] The first stock he bought [07:00] Getting hooked
on the market [07:30] Why he wants to share his secrets now [08:15] The three stages of life [08:45] Finding
joy in helping others achieve success [09:15] Creating principles in life [09:45] Why his new book is a recipe book [10:45] The two things you need to be successful [11:10] You
have to stress test your ideas [11:50] The power of making mistakes [14:00] Public humiliation in 1982 [15:30] The most painful experience became the most powerful [15:50] Learning to ask: «How do I know I'm right?»
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell
on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years
on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you
have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing
on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus
on appreciation,
joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
The CiTrades platform itself is a
joy for binary options traders to use; they went above and beyond to create a trading platform that
has a very user friendly interface and is easy to select and execute trades
on.
When you
've gone through the exercises in the Ideal Customer Finder, you'll be able to focus your marketing efforts
on attracting people who appreciate what you offer, are happy to pay full price, and are a
joy to work with.
You
'd be hard pressed to find someone who likes the spotlight finding any
joy spending the day
on a keyboard looking for high trust library web sites.
â $ œDonâ $ ™ t let others spoil your faith and
joy with their philosophy, wrong and shallow answers based
on manâ $ ™ s thoughts and ideas rather than what Christ
has taughtâ $ (Col. 2:8)
When you
have the courage to sit down and just write, you open yourself up to the endless blank pages in your journal or
on your screen that are screaming to be filled with your thoughts, beliefs, realizations and
joys.
The only real life and thus the only one worth reflecting
on is the one you
have made through love and errors meriting
joy and apologies at the end,
I do this not by keeping the carpet vacuumed, the clothes ironed, and the baby
on her nap schedule» although I
'd prefer to do those things, too» but by radiating love,
joy, and gratitude, particularly to my husband, who
would give us everything if he could but who is limited right now to giving us countless uncomplaining diaper changes, lots of playtime in the backyard, and a delicious nightly menu of grilled meats.
But in that space — where we
had to depend
on a loving God to care for us, where
joy and sadness shared the same tiny breathing space — we were the safest we could ever be.
Happy young lovers, who
've ascended together into the heavens of Venus and of Love, where
joys, so brief
on earth, will now, above this world, endure forever and forever.
Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I
would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting
on the
joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.
It was when I truly saw the fantasy I was subscribing to for what it was, that I was finally able to let go of god and find the peace and
joy I
had been relying
on external addictions like god to provide for me.
They are so scratched and shabby.My mother
had so little
joy to shareShe kept it in a box to hide away.But
on the darkest winter nights — voilà — She....
God calls His people not to impose our beliefs and dictate rights, but to warn others of the price of sin and the finality of inevitable death (in the same way we
would wake someone asleep
on railroad tracks), and to defend His Truths and to correct false understandings that deceive, and to share the
joy that we experience from God's grace.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I
've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I
have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort
joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I
've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I
've lost interest in many things I
've recently I decided it's time for change I
've lost my faith I
've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST
HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I
have noticed my fears
have changed if I
had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm
on journey to find myself and my travels
have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
I realised that I
have been missing something in my message: the reason that people keep
on consuming so much is they are looking for identity,
joy, a hobby, a practice — something to do.
And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar, as the days
on which the Jews
had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to
joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and
joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.
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having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to
joy itself, Lewis later found that
joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's
joy cause us to «en -
joy»
on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical wholeness of humankind, but
joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.
And in return, the people who serve and help others gain a sense of satisfaction, significance, and
joy, because they
have done something more with their lives than sign their name
on a check.
On one side was great joy, on the other side was the scepticism that had to be expecte
On one side was great
joy,
on the other side was the scepticism that had to be expecte
on the other side was the scepticism that
had to be expected.
The
joy and relief of this was indescribable and we can only say that everything the Pope predicted about the effect
on life, morals and families by the non-acceptance of the Encyclical
has come true.
And then like a troll from the old children's stories, Depression
would be
on the scene to gobble my
joy right up.
Though I
have no desire to deprive experts of their pleasures and I do understand the
joys of fluency in a another tongue, in terms of expediting interpersonal contactual points in time, the aspects of which appear
on first examination to be of a nature so non-effective as to be thought hardly worth facilitating, hopefully, the sum of these co-optations, possibility-wise, are thought to be so negligible, that while
on the surface appearing deep, in terms of clarity what I
have said is not.
Mardi Gras, when understood in its accidental liturgical context,
has the potential to bring us to God, and it does when we think of it as a celebration that foreshadows our
joy at the Resurrection
on Easter Sunday, that
joy that can say «Death where is thy sting?»
In my selfishness, I thought it was just between me and God.It took the situation with Alicia to wake me up to the fact that when we're not closely listening for the voice of God, we don't just miss out
on the peace and
joy we experience from a deeper relationship with the Lord; we don't just miss an opportunity to give honor and glory to the One who most deserves it; we don't just miss out
on answered prayers God may
have had in store for us — sometimes we miss the opportunity to answer someone else's prayer.»
Real Christians do nt
have to sit
on a soap box preaching about the fires of hell, because they try to live their lives in the grace of God, and hopefully show the peace and
joy that can bring to others.
We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high
on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast to the
joys of the world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills
would take care of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.
QUOTE MD APOLOGY (Relevant Magazine, 2014): «When we recently discussed this [decisions I
have come to with our Senior Pastor Jesus Christ] to reset our life together, late at night
on the couch, she [Grace] started crying tears of
joy.
He's developing an argument about the significance of the doctrine of the resurrection by discussing the logical consequence of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going
on a very typical Pauline digression almost as if he's overcome by
joy at the positive truth and
has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).
Believe it or not, the ultra liberal look just as foolish (seriously: set the lab mice we are testing cancer treatments
on free, but kill the unborn children because their mothers deserve not to
have their lives ruined by stressful bundles of
joy)
He
has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, [a] 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion — to bestow
on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of
joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
We may not always be happy about everything that goes
on in our lives, but if we know the Saviour, as Spafford did, we can
have true
joy and peace that will sustain us through any trial!
Since my affections
have been set above measure
on you, I
have had less peace and
joy in God; I
have felt as it were a division in my heart.
Hath really neither
joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as
on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
(google pascals wager) A true christian job / duty
on this earth is NOT to FORCE his / her religion / beliefs
on anyone else... as Paul said «You must be able to give an explanation for the
JOY you
have and the HOPE You
have, and the FAITH you
have to others» the rest is up to God the Holy Ghost and the person you are talking to, to believe, or not..
Writing
on joy, she exults in the wonder of a God who
would choose human beings for such a task, and she describes the facets of redeeming love: «Redemption does not mean you and me made safe and popped into heaven.