You can come out
of birth feeling strong and empowered or as if you've had no voice at all.
Not exact matches
It's a
feeling many
of us share, the same desire that makes people demand President Obama's
birth certificate and turns books like The Da Vinci Code into bestsellers.
The ritual
of lighting candles on the Christmas tree was said to create an atmosphere
of «pagan demon magic» that would subsume the Star
of Bethlehem and the
birth of Jesus in
feelings of «Germanness.»
But there's no reason people should
feel the need to hide this part
of ourselves that comes from our bodies growing, changing, or giving
birth.
Instead
of feeling more
of a part
of things, at least in the beginning, entrepreneurs often
feel isolated, cut off from everything but the drive to
birth their new enterprise.
Besides the
birth of my first child I
feel very fortunate to be a part
of our growing dividend / financial independence community.
It gave me the opportunity to watch them grow and learn each day — something I was unable to do after the
birth of my first child and for which I had
felt sad and a little guilty.
And my favorite little whine
of yours: «Welllll, they SAY it's wrong buuuut I don't
FEEL wrong doing it so therefore I'm right and I can take
birth control all I want!»
To us, Satan is the symbol that best suits the nature
of we who are carnal by
birth — people who
feel no battles raging between our thoughts and
feelings, we who do not embrace the concept
of a soul imprisoned in a body.
And then that moment
of birth being one
of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead
of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core
of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I
felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it
felt like a glimpse
of Incarnation.
Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence
of the sacramentality
of life, the rootedness
of the sacred not in pious
feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities
of life,
birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»
It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those
of any religious or cult leader,
felt the need to embellish his
birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations
of the people they were trying to convince or influence.
We are beginning to
feel the
birth pangs
of what could be a new form
of human society — global society.
She
felt very strongly that there was something wrong from the beginning, she then started having blood pressure (low) issues, dizziness loss
of balance, lethargy etc. she has a rare blood disorder as well and we have had 2 miscarriages in the past 3 healthy
births total.
In the glow
of this triumph how can he
feel otherwise than exalted as he has never been since his
birth; the more so since the prodigious event is not the mere accidental product
of a futureless chance but the long - prepared outcome
of intelligently concerted action?
We still
feel some need to celebrate the great events
of birth and death and marriage.
This is exactly what we see in Matthew 2 when King Herod
feels threatened by the
birth of a baby boy in Bethlehem, and then uses the claim that he wants to worship the new - born Messiah as an excuse for trying to kill Jesus.
The last time I
felt this close to the glory
of God was while I was giving
birth to my tines; that collusion
of pain and suffering and joy and release and life.
Craig i agree totally church should be a slice
of heaven on earth that is where corporately as believers come into the prescence
of God.Its good when worshiping the Lord to
feel his prescence and to
feel connected to others because
of Jesus.We had our carol service yesterday i was involved in the choir we combined with other churchs in the area it was a good turnout and alot
of fun singing as we celebrated the
birth of Jesus.It really makes christmas for me.If we love Jesus that should spill out into every area
of our lives.He is the one that impacts others through us as we rely on him daily.Merry Christmas to you and your family regards brentnz
To this day, I continue to
feel rushed and afraid, (not to mention completely paranoid about
birth control), despite my husband's insistence that we will share the responsibility
of raising children equally.
Millions
of years before the
birth of Man, the animal
felt, discovered and knew; but its consciousness remained simple and direct.
It gave
birth to an entire category
of my favourite writing here at Emerging Mummy as I tried to write down all
of the moments that I was noticing, the times when I
felt my heart say «This moment matters!»
Frankie Perez never
felt at home in Mexico, so immediately after finishing his secondary education in Aguascalientes he returned to the U.S. Without any particular intent or design, Raul and Maria had given
birth to a profoundly binational family — a family, like millions
of others, with relationships stretched irreversibly across the line.
It can all
feel holy and clinical, a «properly» antiseptic view
of birth, as though to embrace the truth
of birth, the truth
of being born, were too secular for Emmanuel.
But please, what a ridiculous attack for a very heart
felt email that she clearly drafted to help herself, her family and friends be prepared for the
birth of their special son.
We know that he
felt he was called
of God from before his
birth and that he had «a burning fire shut up in [his] bones (Jer.
Christmas touches deep, universal
feelings about the miracle
of birth and family life.
All
of my other children had a beautiful and redemptive
birth story: by contrast, Maggie's
birth had been one
of the most traumatic days
of my life and I
felt that it was my fault.
Consider the titles: The Hidden
Feelings of Motherhood: Coping with Stress, Depression and Burnout; The Mask
of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend it Doesn't; and Life After
Birth: What Even Your Friends Won't Tell You About Motherhood.
Some
feel the place the place
of his
birth was a stable, which at that time were just small structures with a little roof.
Twenty - five years and thirty - five million abortions later, a government commission
feels free to recommend the creation
of human beings for the sole and explicit purpose
of biological experimentation, and a President
of the United States can
feel equally free to defend infanticide in the form
of partial -
birth abortion.
Because
of a technical point regarding interpretation
of the Nebraska statute, the majority in Stenberg
felt obligated to emphasize, in clinical language, that D&E involves pulling «a portion
of the fetus through the cervix into the
birth canal,» where the «traction»
of the surgical instrument and the cervical opening produces dismemberment.
In becoming this past is
felt as a multiplicity gradually fusing itself into unity in the
birth of a new being.
Could it be that He doesn't decide which families shall give
birth to a handicapped child, that He did not single out Ron to be crippled by a bullet or Helen by a degenerative disease, but rather that He stands ready to help them and us cope with our tragedies if we could only get beyond the
feelings of guilt and anger that separate us from Him?
This only applies to those that would like to use
birth control themselves, and no one should be deprived
of that if they choose to use it simply because the church
feels that it may be immoral.
It seemed as though Billy had at last been able to express the
feelings he had stored up from the time
of his sister's
birth.
The trauma
of birth is more than being ejected from the pleasure and safety
of the intrauterine garden
of Eden; it is the
feeling of no longer being whole in oneself.
Maybe he is saying that those who truly believe abortion is wrong should do less to make themselves
feel good (pushing for anti-abortion laws that just drive abortion underground) and more to actually decrease abortion (push to make
birth control more available and to improve the economic situation
of the poor).
More probably, the known fact
of Jesus»
birth at Bethlehem was
felt by his followers to confirm their conviction that he was the Messiah.
The boundaries
of heaven and earth seemed to shift that afternoon, so that they no longer corresponded to
birth and death; it
felt possible to reach into the skies and tug heaven into the present.
As a woman I
feel no guilt taking care
of myself with
birth control, enjoying my husband or talking about «things» with him.
The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love
of the classics and a connatural
feeling for language, for beauty in the form
of words, and for words in their natural setting
of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to
birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle
of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement
of Shakespeare in England at the end
of the century.
The saga continued with a letter to Link on 5 July: «I congratulate you on the
birth of your daughter Margaret... I looked forward to this with great eagerness so that you too might experience «the natural» affection
of parents for their children... We received the tools for the lathe, together with quadrant and clock... Tell Nicholas Endrisch that he should
feel free to ask me for copies
of my books... Since I take nothing for my various works, I occasionally take a copy
of a book if I want... The melons or pumpkins are growing and want to take up an immense amount
of space; so do the gourds and water melons.
What mother hasn't, in the halcyon days after the
birth of a son,
felt her ferocious she - wolf instincts kick in when it comes time for her boy to be circumcised?
In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400
of the older catholic
feeling for the corporate ministry
of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood
of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood
of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and
birth but through a kind
of rebirth in the solemn rededication
of ordination in the descent
of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.
At the
birth of every premium or functional beverage is a dreamer — someone who
feels the need to fill a gap in the market for a particular concoction that goes beyond basic thirst - quenching.
Fabian Senninger has pledged his international future to Nigeria ahead
of Germany, the country
of his
birth and his father as he
feels more at home with the national team
of the country where his mother hails from.
He said in an interview earlier this year that he
felt «more Welsh than Australian», but did not close the door on playing for the land
of his
birth.
I
felt they spent way too much time discussing Reborn dolls and the20 / 20 editors» misinterpretation
of the term «Orgasmic
Birth», to do more than lip service to the other topics.
Althugh I am grateful that my daughter and I both emerged unharmed, I
feel cheated
of the
birth experience I had hoped for.