But this isn't about my father - in - law's birthday cake, or not entirely.
This isn't about a father who, in a brief moment of weakness, failed to protect his family, it's about the dynamics of any relationship: Can we ever know the people we love most?
It's
not about father «involvement» but about the parental characteristics of the fathers who in pre-joint-custody days stayed around (and also the relatively higher socio - economic status of and financial support given to white mothers).
Fact: The hypothesized per se «absence» of the father correlation was not found for «nonwhite» children, indicating that it's
not about father - presence or absence.
Shared parenting isn't about fathers» rights.
Not exact matches
«It was very clear working with my
father and grandfather and uncle that it wasn't just
about making money,» he said.
Trump's
father, President Donald Trump, has
not spoken publicly
about the allegations but issued a statement while he was in Asia through his spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
When you think
about the types of beer that your
father or grandfather drinks, it doesn't change.
Corcoran doesn't talk as much
about her
father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., who died in 2011.
A few weeks after Dave died, I was talking to my friend Phil
about a
father - son activity that Dave was
not here to do.
While George Clooney's recent description of life as a
father does
not paint him as «a mess,» except for the bit
about vomit, it does indicate he has his hands full with the two little ones.
Quill finally realizes that while Yondu may
not have been his biological
father, he truly cared
about him — but he realizes too late.
His
father, Douglas — already the second generation of family owners — was «
not enthused
about the idea» of franchising.
Although an accomplished writer of memoirs, she couldn't or wouldn't write the book that Western publishers wanted
about her
father.
Abdulbaki Todashev, the
father of 27 - year - old Ibragim Todashev, told a Moscow press conference that U.S. officials haven't told him anything
about the May 22 shooting and that he believes that his son was killed to keep him from talking.
Frankly, I feel, there are just too many questions
about my
father's health at the time he was making extremely important decisions... We weren't the only ones affected.
Donald Jr.'s meeting with Sajwani is a reminder of these inadequacies, especially because Sajwani posted the picture to Instagram, thus increasing the lunch's visibility and, along with it, the likelihood that the president will know
about the ongoing interactions between his company and Sajwani's (that is, if Donald Jr. hasn't already made his
father aware of them).
Yang, who inherited a real estate fortune from her
father, did
not respond to questions
about her offshore company, Joy House Enterprises Limited.
Some people now retired like my
father have the luxury of a defined benefit pension which just
about covers their basic expenses, so they can hang on to their equity portfolios as a «top up» and
not need to buy bonds at all.
You can't use the architecture of the building to make any assumptions
about the thinking of the Founding
Fathers, only the thinking of the mores in place at * that * time.
Briefly, newspapers recite The facts
about the fisherman Who for two months, day and night, Went out fishing for his son, His only child, aged 23, Who in a winter squall was drowned» Washed overboard and out to sea» And whose body was
not found Till the hour his
father's net,....
His own
father - in - law was posthumously baptized, so he's
not about to do anything to stop this pathetic practice.
Certainly we don't doubt his love as a
father... whatever other doubts we've had
about him.
Children
not among the targeted audience: those who worry
about having enough food to last through the weekend, those who wonder why their
father is no longer at home, and those who must learn to avoid neighborhood violence.
As someone who has sat by the death bed of a sister,
father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think
about their loved ones
not God.
In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just
about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and
father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is
not just a problem for individuals but also for society.
And then hear him pray through the excruciating pain for those who are killing him, «
Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing,» and say to his disciple
about his mother Mary, «behold thy mother,» (i.e., he was looking out for her and entrusting her into the car of his close friend, even as he suffered).
You make things better by doing something
about them, by taking your life into your own hands —
not by asking an invisible, unprovable, and non-existent fairy «god»
father to fix your issues.
I mean who else would say «
Father forgive them, for they know
not what they do»
about the people who were presently crucifying him?
It keeps conservatives from facing the fact that the Progressives, and most of the others who disagree with them, are their political brothers, sisters,
fathers, and mothers — that we are America's children all,
not simply due to formal citizenship, but due to the fact that something
about America's original principles, even something
about America's successes, caused many of its children to sincerely, if
not always wittingly, reinterpret and thus actually oppose those original principles.
Hmm — whose prayers change things, and why doesn't all prayer change things... a friend asked for a new house — got one; another friend asked to be cured from leukemia, God didn't answer her prayers — she died; another friend asked for wisdom on how to care for her elderly
father, an alcoholic — still drinks, she still has no knowledge on what to do
about it — never thought to maybe look up information
about elder care.
My
father also taught me, even when I was a child, that Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote some unflattering stuff
about non-whites in «Mormon Doctrine,» stood in Conference after the 1978 announcement and said he had obviously been wrong on those points, and he retracted everything
not in keeping with the Brethren's announcement.
And «In my experience, it is only in Relationship that we can really know the character of Jesus, and whether or
not that character seems to match up what some t - h - i -
n - k they read
about the
Father in the Old Testament.»
For anyone that reads or has read the bible, then you would know that it say's «No one knows
about that day or hour,
not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father.»
I am a real Christian
not a church on Sunday forget
about God the rest of the week Christian.You and the others here have insulted a friend a
Father to me.
In my experience, it is only in Relationship that we can really know the character of Jesus, and whether or
not that character seems to match up what some t - h - i -
n - k they read
about the
Father in the Old Testament.
Speaking to his disciples
about the «end times» in Mark 13: 32, Jesus says: «But
about that day or hour no one knows,
not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father.»
Just as history brings freedom from rigid role definitions, it may also give us the freedom to think seriously again
about what it means to be
not simply a unisex parent, but a mother or
father in particular.
I agree that God didn't pursue Adam to smash his face in, never suggested that or alluded to it, but there is no confusion where sin leads and there is no doubt
about the consequences off those who love their lives, they will lose it where as those that hate their lives will find it... So to conclude, Jesus and the
father are
not two different things, they are both the very same in as much as God desires all to be saved and has shown the way to salvation.
If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have heard
about Jesus, and that God is our
father and loves us.»
Just want you to know that what Jesus did was
not done in the
fathers presence either, at the point he was
about to die on the cross the
father had turned away and Jesus knew he hung there alone at one point.
people don't CAREabout children having mother and
father... they are too into themselves to give a f ***
about them
I used o think as you do
about Jesus being all those «things»,
about love, self sacrifice, compassion, etc.... But how is Jesus so loving and compassionate when according to the bible he and his
Father will throw billions of people into HELL for all eternity for simply
not believing in them?
Hmmm, let us see what some of the experts (
NT, historical Jesus scholars) have to say
about the «Son of God / the
Father references in the
NT:
Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the point most provocatively: «As a
father, God does
not care enough
about his children: human
fathers do this better.
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special
about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and
not mothering and
fathering.
When he heard that I was a priest he laughed and said, «Gee,
Father, I hope you didn't think this was a play
about God.»
My parents were decidedly anti-establishment when it came to religion and politics, particularly my
father (don't ever get him started
about Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau....).
He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak
about fatherhood and,
not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a
father.»
a vulnerable share
about depression: «Our Heavenly
Father loves us so much that He is
not afraid of the depths to come get us.