Sentences with phrase «life as a task»

They saw that their parents too often treated life as a task, a heavy burden, a labor to be accomplished.

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As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

As exciting as the entrepreneur's life is, you have to deal with mundane taskAs exciting as the entrepreneur's life is, you have to deal with mundane taskas the entrepreneur's life is, you have to deal with mundane tasks.

Every Wednesday, Vaden and a guest converse about how to approach big tasks such as finding a purpose in life, repairing broken relationships and saying «no» to achieve productivity.

Just as we are creating an artificial race to perform our tasks, we are also trying to live forever.

Replace as many life tasks as you can with digital services.

There's no such thing as being able to balance your work responsibilities, tasks and duties and your life responsibilities, chores and duties.

Brought into the world as part of Microsoft's Office 97 software suite, he was supposed to present a friendly face to users, popping up frequently onscreen to waggle his eyebrows and offer assistance with life's little tasks.

As a virtual assistant, you can choose your clients, then manage their emails, schedule meetings, book travel, and complete other essential tasks to make your clients» lives and businesses run more smoothly — all from the comfort of your own home.

Thankfully, in the early days (Q3 2017), estimating Model 3 sales in the U.S. was a pretty easy task, as the complete delivery volume for July took place live at the July 28th delivery event in Fremont, California.

If you work from home then it can become even more complicated, as open - home viewings and other tasks will start to interfere with your working life.

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

10 Expert Tips For Packing Like A Pro Consistently ranked as one of the top five stressful life situations, moving is just one of those tasks that hasn't gotten any easier with the march of time.

As the Patriarch sees the matter, the council's main task is to bring conciliarity on a worldwide level back into the life of the Orthodox Church and to engage the issue of Christian unity on a variety of levels.

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

No longer then is the bearing and rearing of children thought of as a task we should take up or as a return we make for the gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.

The insight gained from the life of Jesus is that the task of becoming a human being, as God became a man, involves death.

Indeed, we suspect that the very distinction between theology, ethics and liturgy reflects the seminary's adoption of inappropriate academic models of compartmentalization and a failure to take seriously the liturgical life of congregations as central to our educative task.

It will become clear how he identified three essential tasks in Eve's very being, or as he wrote, «the dignity and role of woman is... the guarantee of what «feminine» humanly symbolizes: acceptance, care of man, generation of life.»

So, while books, films and lectures could be used in confirmation class, they should only supplement the main task of putting young Christians in close proximity with older Christians — «mentors» who invite these younger Christians to look over their shoulders as they both attempt to live as Christians.

He is «persuaded that everyone who lives in what we know as history participates at bottom in the life of Christ» and «that the task of theology is to unveil and make manifest the universal presence and reality of Christ.»

Far from insulting the U.S. president, Mother Teresa offered to come alongside him to help him in his monumental task to build a more just, life - giving society in which every soul is treated as sacred and no soul is kicked to the curb.

Your task is to find out, with as little preconception as possible, how your informants describe what is going on in life, where it seems to be headed, and why.

For our own age, overly captivated by abstraction, the task of philosophical reflection is often to reverse the process and recover living experience» living experience of God, who transcends our human conceptions and confronts us as a philosophy - defying Other even as He addresses us and makes Himself available to us.

He humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant, but he did not come to spend his life as a servant in some private employment, attending to his tasks without in any manner making himself known, either to his master or to his fellow servants — such a measure of wrath we dare not ascribe to the God.

And what is decisive, when people fulfilled these definite, easily handled maxims, they had in fact complied with the greater part of their task in life as far as that life was subject to freedom.

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

This lack of an as it were «mobile» clergy may well be damaging for the living presence of the Church in a pluralist society, for such a clergy might be aware of new tasks, and make use of special gifts and contacts due to their former professional and general experience.

That he chose intuition as a mode of apprehension best calculated to seize such true images of things as they are in their living context simply meant that, of the tools available, this, in his judgment, was best suited to accomplish the intellectual task in its most realistic and vital sense.

You are asking these people to care for your parents as you would, doing hard, personal and sometimes dangerous tasks (lifting and moving people causes often life altering injury) and they often make barely livable wages.

This task requires the cultivation of spiritual life to the point that the lives of seminarians become sensitive to the true and eternal realities of God revealed in Christ, and committed to these realities as the basis of their ministry.

Following James Gustafson, I have taken as a central concern the task of finding the most appropriate means to articulate how Christians have understood, and do and should understand, the relationship between Christ and the moral life.

Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order of business.

I have taken as my primary task to locate the «specificity» of the Christian life — that is, the peculiar images that should form and shape the character of Christians.

And More is left, as we all are, with the task of making life and love in the ruins of our civilization.

I agree with your over all statement that we as individual Moslims are responsible for making sure we are portrayed accurately but I will tell you that against such a orginized movement that is a task as difficult as parting of the sea or giving life to a death body.

For Heidegger, as perhaps for no other philosopher, the distinction between life and thought has meaning only if one perceives Heidegger's philosophy itself as self - confuting: So, the task is left to me, an outsider, to raise what may really be the quintessential Heideggerian question: the relation of his life to his thought.

If we merely cooperate with a power greater than our own, our task is to benefit as best we can the life this child has.

I believe my task as a theologian is to theologize responsibly, not for the marginalized or the «convertible,» but rather for those who, like me, want to know «what time it is» and, in the face of that reality, how we can live most faithfully.

Carl Jung described the developmental task of the second half of life as the need to develop neglected inner resources and enrich the inner life.

True humility means that one sees oneself as addressed with one's very life and one's life task as that of responding to this address.

Devoted couples can and should work out their sexual adjustments as a task of married life.

But as I closed our last hour with a general philosophical reflection on the healthy - minded way of taking life, I should like at this point to make another philosophical reflection upon it before turning to that heavier task.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance of some more general proposition as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls of the righteous» live on subjectively.

It is the task of ECT to formulate that truth in a way that assists contemporary men and women to live as committed disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

The ripening and the proving of man's spiritual powers may be accomplished through individual tasks and interests; yet somehow, beneath or above, there stands the demand that through all of these tasks and interests a transcendent promise should be fulfilled, that all individual expressions should appear only as a multitude of ways by which the spiritual life comes to itself.

As one pastor who moved from a large church to a small church commented, I would never go back to a large church... Administrative tasks kept getting in the way of doing what I wanted to be doing,... [which is] serving a congregation and making a difference in people's lives.»