My hope is that we could model authentic community in a group - life structure that is so meaningful and refreshing that it would help move people to know how to
live out all of their relationships.
In their private practices, authors Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel often find themselves face - to - face with marriages that are suffocating, as if the depression has sucked
the life out of a relationship that was only prepared for the anticipated joy of pending childbirth.
In a down - to - earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner - Davis outlines a realistic, solution - oriented seven - step program for managing marital problems, which, when left unchecked, can drain
the life out of a relationship.
Don't wait until the years of pain, anger, tears and suffering will choke
the life out of your relationship with your significant other.
Not exact matches
How can you go
out and form
relationships with the people who are already
living the
life you dream
of?
However, while Fike enjoyed the challenges
of her work and the
relationships she built, she felt her
life was
out of balance.
While I loved the challenges,
relationships, security and tangibility
of the field, my
life was
out of balance.
In addition, when we garden with others, and when we further enhance this activity through developing a community garden or donating some
of our bounty to a food bank, we feel a sense
of belonging; we bond with our peers — which in turn can lead to supportive, collaborative, and nourishing
relationships, both personal and professional; and we tap into a sense
of meaning and purpose in
life, by helping
out those in need.
By being upfront about the entrepreneur lifestyle you're
living and what you're looking to get
out of your
relationship, you end up not only saving your dates from getting involved in something they may not want, but also become much more efficient in your dating
life, which is what entrepreneurship is a lot about, after all.
However, once her
relationship with Prince Harry became public knowledge, the actress has mostly remained
out of the limelight — presumably, in part, because
of the difficult role the media played in Diana's and Harry's own
life.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best
out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability
of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop
of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful
relationships [30:15] The importance
of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the
relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting
of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth
of the top 1 %
of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
While it can be difficult to end a toxic
relationship, friendship or get
out of your comfort zone to start a new one, you'll be far better off in the long run if you know what you want and pay the daily price — the hard work and sacrifice — to bring it to
life.
Follow that up with a stint in the military and you get a personality that doesn't foster
relationships because I believe people move in and
out of your
life.
If so, we'll see how well the
relationship and the faith hold up when her priest tells her she should stop
living / sleeping with him
out of wedlock.
Thanks for the helpful prutcie
of the big journey, David.It would be good to get an update half way through the year how these
relationships with first years have developed, how well the transition to secondary school
life has been handled and also how the November weekend turned
out!
Instead, we should be illuminating what is good, loving without conditions, forming
relationships and
living out the fullness
of grace and truth.
Awareness is not tethered to the physical but
relationship with the physical There is no such thing as non existence physically or conceptually Agency
of time and space must be outside our subset
of existence and predate singularity Our known world is configured to be appear concentric Probability
of intelligent
life in only 14 billion years is one
out of ten to the power
of 127 assuming one universe.
like former leader... we too have kept open house and had people
live with us long and short term for nearly all our married
life... we've had debate, argument, sadness, hilarity... even had someone with a disturbing psychosis... not at one stage have we felt the need to make any rules... that would almost be like copping
out of relationship.
It's a pity I wasted so many years
of my
life on him, and I hate that my kids all suffered so much, but I am happy to be
out of that toxic
relationship.
It tends to exclude all who find the history
out of which they
live to be one that has broken the
relationship to this ancient past.
But when you pray, spend time thinking about what I value, what I have instructed you, how I
lived my
life, the kind
of example I provided, the people I hung
out with, the goals I sought to achieve, the
relationship I had with God.
The social ethical principles here arise
out of love itself; which means the responsible
relationship of people who commit their
lives to one another.
The young adults who do drop
out of church often lack a first - hand faith — a faith
of their own — and a
relationship with Christ that matters deeply in their own personal
life apart from their parent's pressure.
If you could rewrite your
life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the
relationship with God you have now through years
of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn
out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.
Experiences during this process include feelings
of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory
of the lost one, pouring
out of grief, idealization
of the deceased, guilt feelings, anger, loss
of interest in usual activities, the unlearning
of thousands
of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning
of other responses, resumption
of normal patterns
of living, and the establishment
of substitute
relationships.
In the extreme case
of the psychotic person
living in a private world
out of all relation to the real world value - experience is severely restricted, because it lacks the possibilities for growth and enrichment through the establishment
of new external
relationships.
As Carroll Wise has pointed
out, the counseling
relationship is simply an intensification
of the same quality
of relatedness which should exist throughout the
life of a church.
He tells us
of times when he and his wife get at odds with each other, and how he about cusses his car
out (or any other inanimate object) that day, and yet, enjoy
life because
of his
relationship with his True Friend, Jesus Christ.
She is a productive citizen
of society, works, is monogamous in her
relationship, is raising a adorable boy, is kind to everyone she meets and yet you have straight people
out murdering, raping,
living on welfare, and yet they should
live more than a gay person.
Instead
of just relying on day - to - day
life for friend time, being an adult means getting involved in church, playing in sports leagues, volunteering or just carving
out time to grab some coffee with a buddy to maintain meaningful
relationships and actually accomplishing all those squad goals.
Coming
out, I come into the realization
of myself as best able to relate most intimately — to touch and be touched most deeply, to give and receive most naturally, to empower and be empowered most remarkably — best able to express everything I most value — God in human
life, God in justice, God in passion, God as love — in sexual
relationship to a lover who is female.
Seventh, if marriages are to be permanent and productive
of humane values, marriage partners need to select one another not on the basis
of romantic attraction and immediate sexual satisfaction, but
out of regard for the long - term potentialities in the
relationship for the creation
of a worth - full shared
life.
rather, it is the
living out of love in
relationship that i'm trying to articulate as the spirit.
I have had periods in my married
life when, due to job changes or whatever, I have been
out of meaningful
relationship with friends I could see regularly.
Case in point: For years I predicted that Oregon's assisted suicide law would not result in doctors and patients with long standing
relationships working
out what is best for end -
of -
life care.
It's
out total lack
of love in the world that condems us all to
lives of fear in every aspect, land, food, shelter, money, health,
relationships, security, employment, education, freedom
of speach, travel, leisure, family, freedom to
live ones
life without prejudice.
We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't
live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental
relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse
of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world
out there that needs are help and these doctrines
of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.
Over the last 5 years or so, I've cut toxic
relationships out of my
life from the Church, family and friends.
But the solitariness
of individuality is
lived out only in the midst
of constitutive
relationships.
As another example, if the
relationship between the strengths
of the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force were not close to what it is, then the cosmos would not harbor any stars that explode and spew
out life - supporting chemical elements into space or any other stars that form planets.
They can too easily get involved in sexual
relationships outside marriage, and then — when, as so often happens,
life comes
out of that — they feel: «I'm isolated, I'm on my own, I'm afraid.»
Nor is it the
life I
live with my wife, nor does it describe the
relationships of the friends I hang
out with from church.
He constantly directs us towards understanding our
relationship with God as a
living and
lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding
out into the world in service
of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling
relationship with Christ.
We pointed
out above that this is a difficult factor to assess in the case
of gospel
relationships because
of the difficulty
of establishing original texts, and because
of the possibility
of parallel free tradition
living on side by side with the written gospels and influencing them at various stages.
For the first 40 + years
of my
life I thought I had a «
relationship» with Christ, but I finally had to admit that I was talking to myself and there is no - one up /
out / over / around there.
This
lived -
out action had a shape which was that
of a descending curve which went down, into, through, and under every broken God -
relationship, and was apparently destroyed at the nadir
of its career on Good Friday.
It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes
of actualization that help us to
live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our
lives; by deepening our
relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.
Revelation is the disclosure
of the self - humbling
of God and with it the promise
of ultimate reconciliation and unity that arises
out of the unbrokenness
of the love that gives itself away completely and by doing so manifests itself as the ground
of all
life and
relationship.
God does not want to be «figured
out» but wants to be in
relationship with us so his (or, if you will, her) love, wisdom, inspiration, health, energy and very
life can be part
of us, flow through us and give us love,
life, wisdom, inspiration and energy to share with others.
For the
relationship to the
Living God which is religion is not contained primarily in these other things, but in an ontological
relationship, i.e. something that derives from the very nature
of your being, to God, as the One lain hold
of in a personal, loving ful lment which lls
out both our intellect, and our capacity for loving alike.