I'm trying to learn not to take anything for granted by feeling grateful for
the little things of life, by living and appreciating each moment.
I'm trying to learn not to take anything for granted by feeling grateful for
the little things of life, by living and appreciating each moment.
Not exact matches
Admiral William McRaven, author
of «Make Your Bed:
Little Things That Can Change Your
Life... And Maybe The World,» explains what he learned after being fired early on in his career.
«What I mean by this is people try and make themselves seem more exciting, so they can sometimes oversell some
things or even tell
little white lies within very basic parts
of their
lives.
All these small
little life things that occurred taught me that you are not alone in this world, and there are a lot
of other people and their viewpoints are important to you, and then just watch them and be supportive
of each other and all the difficulties they've had in
life.
As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier
things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects
of life, boosting joy with very
little effort.
One
of the nice
things about taking out federal loans is that you have a
little time to adjust to
life outside
of college before you have to start paying on them.
«I loved to get them a lot
of things to put under the tree at Christmas, because it was just so much darn fun to watch them when they were
little, opening the gifts and enjoying them,» said Davis, who
lives in Mesa, Ariz..
One
of the most surprising
things I've learned as a chronicler
of other people is how
little we actually remember
of our own
lives.
Admiral William McRaven, author
of «Make Your Bed:
Little Things That Can Change Your
Life... And Maybe The World,» explains what his daily workout consists
of including push - ups, pull - ups and other exercises.
Difference No. 1, if you were to put the differences into categories, would include a bunch
of little things —
little, that is, only to people who have spent their working
lives in white collars and well - lit offices.
In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because
of evolution but can you create those kind
of important moments in your
life and it really comes down to creating doing new
things, always creating — you have to be a
little more creative when you get older to create those new
things but those are the
things you think about which I think are quite important.
My spirituality is realizing that if I do the first two
things that fame and money have
little to no influence in my experience
of life.
It's one
thing to say that the economy sprung to
life after Trump took office, even if statistics say that there's not much change since the late Barack Obama years; one can certainly make a case for it, even if it requires a
little cherry - picking
of the right indicators.
I think that it is important to be in a
life of worship, it's not about singing songs it's the choices you make in every
little thing.
But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied
life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave
little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime
of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these
things, you can also call me a feminist.
With a variety
of topics from easy dinner ideas and personal finance to leaving a legacy, Jen equips others to
live life to its fullest, reminding them it's the
little things that really are the big
things in
life.
The aspect
of life which most stirs my soul is the ability to share in an undertaking, in a reality, more enduring than myself: it is in this spirit and with this purpose in view that I try to perfect myself and to master
things a
little more.
I'm still trying to figure out what it means to embrace waiting as a part
of life, but so far the most interesting fringe benefit I've observed is a newfound capacity for absorbing the significance
of the
little things.
Yes, the purpose
of the flood was for god to let off a
little steam by killing nearly every
living thing, including the unborn, infants and animals.
as a non-muslim who knows
little about muslim culture (i don't really know any muslims, actually, so beyond what i know about the basics
of the religion, i don't know anything about day - to - day
life), i've really enjoyed learning new
things about people.
Either God controlls all
thing, including the death
of the
little boy, the loss
of his sister's leg and the
life of pain his parents will now suffer or he doesn't.
two
things first the term Christian means
little Christ it was meant as in insult at first, as a Christian it should affect every part
of my
life, as a true follower
of Jesus there is no way I could say I believe this is wrong (but because I am in politics) I will vote another way.
Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make
things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you
of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke
of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the
life that He offered so they stopped following him.
In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern
of his own
little story into the great story which explains not only his own
little life but how
things are.
The problem with bisexuality in my
life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy
of the way
things «ought» to be and too
little in the more modest recognition
of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction
of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.
This is a desperate error, or rather a desperate mistake, which overlooks (yes, and what is worse, it overlooks the fact that what it overlooks is pretty nearly the best
thing that can be said
of a man, since far worse often occurs)-- it overlooks the fact that the majority
of men do never really manage in their whole
life to be more than they were in childhood and youth, namely, immediacy with the addition
of a
little dose
of self - reflection.
But Christianly understood death is by no means the last
thing of all, hence it is only a
little event within that which is all, an eternal
life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is
life but this
life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.
If they'd just do that one
little thing... apply YOUR religion to YOUR
life and let the rest
of US
live OUR
lives to our liking, the world (America especially) would be a much better place!
I like the down - to - earth approach which recognises that we can all too easily turn into members
of the «Plum Club» («Poor
Little Unfortunate Me») and that the call to the Christian
life is a call to fidelity and faithfulness which often requires
things that are tough and difficult.
But these true and genuine Christians are so busy with
life, that they have very
little time for the
things of God.
I protect kids for a
living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all
life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain
little, hurt nobody, want minimal
things for myself and often go without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant, mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end
of their
life goes to Heaven.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth
little: but godliness is profitable unto all
things, having promise
of the
life that now is, and
of that which is to come.
This is always a
little embarrassing for me because I save my best, most personal writing for my books and tend to hammer out most
of my blog posts before I've even had my second cup
of coffee in the morning, which is a hazy, disorienting time in which I am strictly prohibited from making important
life decisions or ordering
things from the internet.
The transactions
of daily
life are made in the
little things so that double - mindedness presents a much greater diversity within the «individual.»
I, speaking as a victum, remember
little of the actual accounts (except the smell
of this guys after - shave and the way he would force me agains a wall), but my sleepless nights (the [ast 30 years), the loss
of memeories
of most
of that time in my
life and knowing that something did happen makes it difficult to fathom how someone like Mr. Bernard can be blind to this sort
of thing.
Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our
little selfish
lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the
things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the whole realm
of the divine ordering
of things.
On the other hand, it is not the Christian idea that in the temporal end alone — on this planet where our
little mortal
lives are
lived out — there will come the grand culmination
of all
things.
Hence in a sense our age is too tenacious
of life to die, for dying is one
of the most remarkable leaps, and a
little verse
of a poet has always attracted me much, because, after having expressed prettily and simply in five or six preceding lines his wish for good
things in
life, he concludes thus: Ein selige Sprung in die Ewigkeit.)
If we're going to follow Holy Spirit and allow Him to be the leader
of our
lives, we're going to be led to do some crazy
things, down some uncomfortable paths, in some moments where
little makes sense to us and those around us.
Gary: To do a
thing apart from His Spirit is just self works: It is not in and by The Faith
of the Son
of God: Paul said; he
lives by the Faith
of the Son
of God, that comes with the in workings
of the Holy Spirit: Even as Paul says; follow me as am
of Christ: This was Paul commission:
Little Children I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you, this takes us from self works into the in workings
of the Holy Spirit, that we too are conformed into the image and likeness
of Christ, as Christ is formed in us: Even as it was with Peter's commission, Peter when thouest is converted convert thine brethren: But we can see many left Jesus and Paul when it can time for the strong meat to be had: So too is it in each generation: The great falling away, that only the faithful remain: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus name Alexandria: P.S. if Peter or Jesus or Paul would stand here today in your presence and speak forth what they spoke forth then, would you truly receive them??? Now it is the Christ in us that comes forth to minister the Words
of the Lord through others as they: That is why Christ is not divided, those
of the same Spirit will know because we speak the same
things in and by His Holy Spirit:
It doesn't get you a personal god who concerns himself with one
little planet and a very tiny fraction
of living things on that planet..
It seems not a
little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle
of Ahimsa and will not take the
life of the most humble
living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own
life.
Would you consider expanding the series a
little and making a list (or something similar)
of the «
things» Jesus tells us about how to
live as part
of the Kingdom
of God on this earth?
@NII YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE GUILTY AND TALKED ABOUT OTHER FALSEHOOD RELIGION YOU DID NOT LIKE OR UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU WAS
LITTLE CHILD OR YOUNGER ADULT OR MID
LIFE PERSON.THERE ARE THOUSANDS
OF GLOBAL FALSEHOOD RELIGIONS.BUT THIS ONE
THING DOES NOT LIE (DNA) Y CHROMOSOME EVEN TOP SUPER SMART BLOND HEAD BLUE EYE PALE SKIN SUPER DNA RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS WITH MULTIPLE PHD DEGREES FROM NORWAY SWEDEN AND FINLAND DENMARK ETC KNOW THAT THE Y CHROMOSOME ALSO KNOWN AS THE ADAM Y CHROMOSOME CAMED OUT
OF EAST AFRICA.falsehood religion did not make.the human race WISDOM DID WISDOM WALKED AND TALKED WITH MAN IT WAS WISDOM THAT MADE ADAM AND EVE.THINK ABOUT IT @NII NOW THE MOST DOMINANT DNA BELONGS TOO BLACK PEOPLE NOT EUROPEANS.LOOK AT ALL YOUR MIXED RACE BLACK PEOPLE»S TIGER WOOD»S HALLEY BERRY LENNY KRAVITZ LISA BONET ETC DNA DO NT LIE man made falsehood religion do lie
Inspiration to do good
things is something the world needs a whole lot more
of and no matter what form that inspiration comes in all walks
of life should learn to appreciate it instead
of always being so cynical about
things they can't wrap their own
little minds around...
it is a shame that many plp think so
little of our faith... they do no understand what is like to be a true christian... and no not one
of those plp who say im a christian and go to church from sunday to sunday, not one
of the fanatics who advocate hate, not a bigot who proclaim god's name without understanding... this
life is a journey to find something greater than spiritual awareness... it is a journey to see the world the way god does, it is a journey beyond any book, any view... that is why i belive in my faith... im a christian and i love my god but im not the one who follows faith blindly and question every
thing
Therefore, the church must be attentive to the myriad
of seemingly
little things that it does to make people feel a part
of a community — the daily, unspectacular acts
of caring and
living together: the hospital visit, the covered - dish supper, the birthday card, the hour spent preparing food at the church's soup kitchen.
«We invite them to come and dress up as Saints their heroes
of faith, and we do some kind
of teaching, a
little tiny short
thing, that gives them an aspiration for
living in God.»
They could beat themselves up over it all or cut themselves a
little slack re guilt, admit they are human and have made lots
of mistakes in
life and go from there to the next
thing.