Sentences with phrase «marriages work at»

I know this because I have been married 31 years, and I don't consider my marriage work at all.

Not exact matches

There's a known history that we can work together well,» says Shannon, who is J.J.'s stepmother (and, at 42, only 16 years his senior) through her marriage to his father, Lululemon Athletica founder Dennis «Chip» Wilson.

Working together at running your own business can be extremely fulfilling, but it can also have pitfalls that can be detrimental to either your business or your marriage.

Similar to a marriage, a business relationship will not prosper if the partners are constantly at odds over values or even over basic working styles.

«I knew people in Missouri who would go to Iowa, where same - sex marriage is legal, to get married, and then not tell people at work, because they were afraid,» Sanchez says.

Make hard work your favorite words, whether at work or at home or in your marriage or wherever your definition of success takes you.

At Virgin, we've managed to create a fun, inclusive, energetic atmosphere at work, and the friendships and romances that have flourished have enriched our lives — we've celebrated many employee marriages over the yearAt Virgin, we've managed to create a fun, inclusive, energetic atmosphere at work, and the friendships and romances that have flourished have enriched our lives — we've celebrated many employee marriages over the yearat work, and the friendships and romances that have flourished have enriched our lives — we've celebrated many employee marriages over the years.

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

Wilcox writes that «both cultural and economic forces are at work» in widening the marriage and divorce divides.

One reason that Americans must work to protect life, religious liberty, and marriage is that other Americans are hard at work undermining these values.

I see that power at work in pastoral care for those so alienated from each other in faltering marriages that the one can only recoil from the offered hand of the other.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

And you would be right, but as Robby notes, «The impulse to crush the rights of conscience... to ensure conformity with what have become key tenets of the liberal faith (abortion, «sexual freedom,» «same - sex marriage») is the authoritarian impulse» at work.

Sorry Christards, at the end of the day, when the change comes to allow same-s.e.x marriage — and it's coming, don't kid yourself — it will be because people across the country are talking to gay and lesbian co-workers and neighbors, meeting same-s.e.x couples and their kids at Little League games, and working at companies with domestic - partner health plans.

One of the challenges and joys of a good marriage is the opportunity to work together at discovering the particular forms of belief and practice that will meet the spiritual needs of both partners and their children.

Show creator Carl Reiner was hard at work delivering an interesting, nuanced portrayal of a marriage when most television shows were still asking viewers to laugh at smart, long - suffering husbands putting up with their silly, accident - prone wives.

Most of us have to work at intimacy throughout our marriages if it is to flower.

Some may have chosen a life of difficulty and waywardness to help others seek more clearly - as some who go through painful divorces allow others to see how working at marriage is prefereable.

It's likely that you'll be able to rebuild some of the satisfying things you've lost from your marriage, if you're both willing to work at it.»

He has been hard at work in my family, in my marriage, and in my work.

An overview of the marital journey provides the perspective a couple needs if they are to work at deepening the marriage relationship.

A strong marriage relationship is constructed by two people who are willing to work at it, year - in and year - out, «for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.»

At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman's work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the «ideal» of heterosexual marriage.

That is, most study in diocesan seminaries and are trained to work in the more familiar Catholic settings of parishes - celebrating Masses, baptizing children, presiding at marriages and working closely with families in their parish.

don't we have to stay at it, marriage is hard work after all, until all is resolved and everyone is singing from the same sheet of music?

Derek says the themes on the album include battling cynicism («Everything Will Change»), coming to terms with who God made you to be («Eye of the Hurricane»), Jesus» nearness to those who are disenfranchised («Closer Than You Think»), unity among the divisions of the church («A Place at Your Table»), the hard work of marriage («The Vow»), and God's great love («Love Part 3»).

Alongside the traditional conservative agenda of (relatively) lower taxes and spending, we should also have a work - and - family agenda that encourages (or at least doesn't discourage) marriage and work.

The way God is working in that 17 - year - old who chose to serve instead of bully at school is just as miraculous as the way God is using your marriage to sharpen you.

We'd been working at a small college our entire marriage, and we'd gone to the «college church.»

I am not saying that marriages between people of different faiths never work at all, or that simply being a «Christian» guarantees that we will make good choices in our marriage or that we will be exempt from divorce.

We'd been working at a small college our entire marriage, and we'd gone to the «college...

Building a good marriage takes the loving skill of two persons who are willing to work — and play — at it to keep it growing!

It is possible, Stevens, surmises, that Miss Kenton might be interested in returning to work at Darlington Hall, since her letter suggests that her marriage has ended.

Furthermore, our needs change at each stage in marriage; it's essential to update our working understanding regularly in order to satisfy emerging needs.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

He came out recently after more than 20 years of marriage to his former wife, who continues to work at their church.

Some couples work out personal covenants or contracts — often in writing so that there'll be no misunderstanding — before the wedding or at regular intervals during a marriage.

Despite our tendency to view ministry as a profession, and the work of the Gospel as worthy of the sacrifice of marriages and attendance at school concerts, our value to God is not buried in our workhorse mentality.

Williams shared a couple of opportunities he's been able to engage his faith while at work in a conversation with PJ Media, including a conversation about the spiritual significance of marriage.

The message of this book is that significant lowering of the walls usually is possible, if a couple is willing to work at developing the potential for joy, pleasure, and creativity in their marriage.

Isaac fell in love with Rebekah at first sight; Jacob worked fourteen years to win the hand of Rachel; David fell in love with Bathsheba and, although theirs was an illicit romance, the result was marriage and the birth of Solomon, one of Israel's greatest kings.

Your marriage is unique, and you and your spouse will work out that specific relationship in a billion different ways that don't look at all like another couple's.

Couples who are still friends and lovers after one or more decades of marriage are almost always those who have worked at strengthening and enriching their relationships.

This should encourage them to see marriage as a relationship which must be worked at if it is to grow.

Marriage is so much more than just something that everybody does at some point when they grow up and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.

The social scientific approach is best seen at work in Naomi Steinberg's Kinship and Marriage in Genesis: A Household Economics Perspective (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993, 162 pp., $ 12.00).

He explained: «If overseas experience is anything to go by, if marriage is redefined it will be very hard to speak up for real marriage anymore - in schools, at work, socially.

But we can at least analyze the kinds of love that are needed by every child, and we can see the ways that the culture has organized to meet those needs, needs which, when driven deeply enough, necessitate the wisdom and the sanctity of a monogamous marriage and a faithful living together as far as possible so that the full work of parenting can be done.

As Sarah put it in a couples» sharing group, «Before the children came, we had something going; but then we both got so wrapped up in other things we didn't work at our marriage, at least not very often.»

Couples who have achieved some degree of psychological intimacy can increase it by working at marriage in some of the ways described in this book.