The season of
LOVE is upon us — one of our favorite times of year here at Loving Moments.
The season of
love is upon us, and we have the perfect little gifts to say «I love you»!
The season of
love is upon us!
Not exact matches
High - level executives
loves to know things
are being tested and improved
upon.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer
loves the public school system, but the truth
is that it can't
be relied
upon to teach children about money.
she asks, continuing, «What if our «exits»
were bestowing
upon someone you
love the thing you have created and crafted with
love?
Your children will model their behavior based
upon yours — if you
're not educated enough to explain to your kids why taking drugs
is dangerous, don't give them tacit license to use because you did,» says Dennis Poncher, author and founder of the support group network Because I
Love You.
San Diego, with its miles
upon miles of beaches and almost ideal climate,
is paradise for those who
love the outdoors.
Love is in the air, and wedding season
is officially
upon us.
Love is the answer in any situation and
upon that we can agree even if we disagree on the causality, genetics, and fancy theological words and scripture passages we can cite back and forth.
Judge less and
love more, then we can focus
upon taking care of our earth and it
's inhabinents.
God's
love is what saves us from this destruction, not places it
upon us.
If
Love is God's primary characteristic, why
are 4 of the 10 Commandments demands for obsequious submission
upon penalty of eternal damnation?
So the American right wing has proven itself, beyond a shadow of a doubt: Their entire political agenda
is built
upon the
LOVE OF MONEY.
After all our commitment
is based
upon an intangible thing called «
love».
The
loving toward even the most vile
is as a social justification
upon one's own subversive means which
are compensatory in natured families that stick with each other's common frailties underpinnings.
So the
loving God and
loving Jesus condemn Hawking forever because he spent his life trying to understand the universe that they created, using the unique mind that they bestowed
upon him, a mind that he used in the way it
was designed to
be used.
It
is incumbent
upon us to make peace, to
love all people, to discern the powerful current of all things moving back to God and participate in this reconciling force that the scriptures say
is at work in the world.
To
love each other and help others out even if we
are spit
upon.
Grace
is love and mercy bestowed
upon another even though it
is UNDESERVED.
And what if, instead, there
's a supreme
being who says, «let me reward those who have used their human faculties, reasoning and intellect,» and to add the drama that you so
love, «and let me punish for eternity those with weak will who blindly adopted the fantasties and fairy tales pushed
upon them without ever questioning...» What do you do then???
in the day,
s that jesus our lord
was on the earth (jesus) there
was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it
was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus
was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these
are they that have washed thier robes and
were not defilled with women, for they
are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary,
s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there
was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you
are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they
were a work of
love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people
are not rejected, but rather they
are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
Caitlin Flanagan, with her «I
'm so put
upon because I work and keep house, but marriage
is better for the children» thinking, and Sandra Tsing Loh, with her «Don't bother, you'll only get burned» bitterness, have (not surprisingly) missed the point that unsterilized marriage
is a great adventure, one that opens your horizons to
love beyond self - satisfaction.
The same with the second man... we can say that it appears that he
was doing the will of the Father by
loving his neighbor but we do not know what
was in his heart
upon his death.
Here
was a man who,
upon meeting Walt Disney, said, «Mr. Disney, my name
is Ray Bradbury and I
love you.»
First, note the particular terms Schweitzer used: he said that the religion of
love is not dependent
upon belief in a «divine personality» (Gottespersönlichkeit) or «World Sovereign» (Weltherrscher).
Just once, I would
love for a mega-church pastor or a prominent church author to come out and announce a blessing
upon all those people who
are leaving their church to follow Jesus in tangible and
loving ways in the community.
Pray for His
love to descend
upon the battlefields, so that understanding and enlightenment causes those who
were harming families and communities to set down their instruments of war in favor of seeds and plows and bricks and mortar in an effort to rebuild.
Takeaway for me
is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's
love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely
upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive
are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...
This
is why I
was tld I had to believe in a Dante's Inferno version of Hell created by a
loving God who intended to keep some 90 % of everyone who ever lived, alive for all eternity, so he could pour his wrath and vengeance out
upon them, forever, and ever, and ever.
Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene
is a best - selling author whose 25 books include «Late Edition: A
Love Story»; «Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War»; and «Once
Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen.»
Most often this scripture passage
is used to preach or teach about God's unconditional
love and his patient mercy, etc., and the primary focus
is usually
upon the father.
We
are called to give each other honour and respect and to depend
upon others for prayer,
love and respect.
God
is Love, yes, and so God wants to lavish friendship and meaning and abundant life
upon us, to help us to see this old world like the new world God envisions.
If saving faith
is contingent
upon belief only, then there would
be no reason for the existence of verses that reference «the obedience of faith» (Rom 1:5; 16:26) and «faith working through
love» (Gal 5:6).
This new Kingdom
is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom built
upon forgiveness and mercy, grace and generosity,
love and kindness, rather than a kingdom built
upon blame, victimization, persecution, and violence toward others for selfish gain.
This
is the kind of
love we
are talking about — not that we once
upon a time
loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.
Such an approach can reinvigorate our vision of the unitive in married
loving which comes from the spirit and transcends sex whilst
being built
upon it.
This
is one of the reasons why artificialcontraception has had such damage
upon marriages and relationships: the couple deliberately withhold their fertility and so no longer give themselves completely to each other; in doing this they deny not just the meaning of sex itself but they also subtract from
loving one of its «givens» - the orientation towards giving oneself completely to one's spouse.
It
is God's declaration of
love to God's new Israel; it
is God's naming to supreme accountability; it
is God's surprise, visited
upon the world of the pompous and powerful.
God answered this vital question by sending His Son, Jesus, as the fulfillment of the most violent religious writings, to show us that He had nothing to do with the violence, but
was instead dying along with us in the midst of the violence, taking our sin and suffering
upon Himself, bearing our guilt and shame in His own
being, all for the sake of those He
loved.
Speaking earlier today, Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: «As we all reflect
upon what happened my thoughts, and those of all of us in the Met,
are with those who lost their
loved ones, their homes and a community that
is in mourning.
It
is to
be found in the
love of that unique, boundless Essence which penetrates the inmost depths of all things and there, from within those depths, deeper than the mortal zone where individuals and multitudes struggle, works
upon them and moulds them.
Again, this
was not because He
is mad or angry at us, and transferred this anger
upon Jesus, but rather, He did this because of His great
love for us, and because He desired to see us freed from sin and death.
Thus the God takes pleasure in arraying the lily in a garb more glorious than that of Solomon; but if there could
be any thought of an understanding here, would it not
be a sorry delusion of the lily's, if when it looked
upon its fine raiment it thought that it
was on account of the raiment that the God
loved it?
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection
are important foci for understanding the depths of God's
love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict
upon it.
Certainly these
are allegories for an internal, undeniable, unsought for, unmeasurable experience which leaves a previously non-theistic person in a state of certainty that there
is, in fact, a benevolent, guiding force
upon them individually and
upon us all as creatures of a
loving power?
But I think there
is some risk that it might
be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to
be fundamental: that the Passion
is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which
is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus
is paradoxically manifested; that it
is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear
upon him
are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary
is that which Christ's accepting
love passes
upon those men, and
upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
At our deepest level we
are responsive to the possibilities of ourselves not yet realized but ever pressing
upon us as divine persuasive
love.