After spending years with a part
of me grieving not having a career, I can honestly being a stay at home mom is where my heart is at.
Not exact matches
Biden would clearly have loved to run in 2016, were it
not for the fact that he was still
grieving the loss
of his son, Beau.
Not just for those officers and their
grieving families, but for all
of us.
That shook me so deeply and I
grieved for her lifetime
of not believing in love.
* Ezekiel 21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: * Hebrews 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will
not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec:)(The Lord will repent himself read * Deut 32:36) * Genesis 6:6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart.
That there is no auxiliary literature
of grievance for men — who, for the most part, just don't seem to feel they have as much to
grieve about in this new world order — is something else that Humanae Vitae and a few other retrograde types saw coming in the wake
of the revolution.
They didn't know he was
grieving the loss
of his sister.
It's
not «bad» atheism, but part
of the
grieving process.
You guys are like little kids: waah, I do
nt want to... waah., the towers were attacked, people died and you guys are upset because
of how we
grieve and pay tribute to lost ones with a symbol
of our beliefs and strengths.
I know it's impossible
not to
grieve... we are going to do that no matter what because it always hurts and if you didn't hurt at all that would sort
of mean you didn't have any true love for these sheep or significant investment in their lives.
(A friend
of mine who was
grieving terribly after the death
of her son actually had cards printed that said, «That wasn't helpful, try again.»
We suspect that much
of the difficulty
of current church life, and our corresponding theology, is that we have
not paid serious attention to how hard it is rightly to understand the common things we do as Christians — such as pray, baptize, eat meals, rejoice at birth,
grieve at illness and death, reroof church buildings.
We may
not have a ceremony through which to
grieve them, but it is our responsibility as women
of faith to guard the dark stories for our own daughters, and when they are old enough, to hold their faces between our hands and make them promise to remember.
The selfy with a smile seems inappropriate, like going to a funeral and you are all smiles because
of people you have
not seen in a long time and
not cosidering other people are
grieving or still
grieving.
Leave a little room on the edges, don't fill it all up, Church, with consumerism and light show performances or with hermeneutical gymnastics and atonement theories: leave a little room for the Love and the breathing, for the remembering and suffering, for the
grieving and the longing, and the Holy stirring
of an interruption.
I stack my sorrows up against the sufferings
of others and think that because I don't have it as bad as someone else that I don't get to
grieve, I don't get to talk about it, I don't get to deal with it.
Thus, the LGBT that is a believer often goes through a
grieving process... but hopefully, ends up in accepting what God will
not change them (outside
of a miracle).
those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are uptight, the angels descend upon them, saying: Fear
not nor
grieve, but hear good tidings
of the paradise which ye are promised.
Grieve not your spirit with forms
of comfort which this world affords.
Here are some warning signs which may indicate abnormal grief: an absence
of mourning, increasing withdrawal from normal life, undiminished
grieving, psychosomatic illnesses, severe depression which does
not lift, personality changes, severe undiminishing guilt.
Well, well... I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I think in this case there should be an exception... Calling on all
of those
grieving family members and friends
of all those that this group decided to picket their funerals... Now is the time to come together and give this lowlife and his followers a dose
of reality.
While efforts to reduce someone s
grieving may seem justified as acts
of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test
of love: they do
not show respect.
I have finally come to grips with the fact that church work will
not be a significant part
of my life in this location — a profoundly discouraging conclusion, because there's so little else to do in this town, and I can
not move away any time soon — but
not before going through a prolonged (and continuing)
grieving process for the loss
of something I loved that had been a part
of my life for so long.
It is
not easy for grievers to resist flight from the pain
of grief, and it is a slander to suggest that those who refuse so stop
grieving openly when most do so — after the first few weeks or months — are somehow «weak.»
Once the extraordinary intensity and longevity
of grief's pain is actually witnessed, many people (including
not a few grievers) simply refuse to believe that an emotional response
of this magnitude could possibly be healthy, or be what
grieving books, counselors, etc., are referring to («They told me you'd cry, but
not this much!»)
Wow — I'm
not grieving — I kind
of don't care....
One
of the most paralyzing parts
of heartbreak comes when people don't take the time to
grieve.
i am sorry, but your reasoing makes no sense... we are made in God's image so
of course, like Him, we have emotions... just because i know something is going to happen doesn't mean i can't have emotions about it... ever have a family member you know is going to die, then they die and you conitnue to
grieve?
«Woe to those who lie upon beds
of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst
of the stall; who sing idle songs to the sound
of the harp, and like David invent for themselves instruments
of music; who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves, with the finest oils, but are
not grieved over the ruin
of Joseph!»
Though Barth
grieved in his later life that most theologians rejected his approach to theology in favor
of current cultural and hermeneutical fads, he looked for Word - oriented allies wherever he could find them, and for the most part he did
not persist in claiming that liberalism was the fatal problem in modern theology.
He seems to suggest, for example, that people approach tragedies and grief
not so much by
grieving but by raising abstract questions about the causes
of suffering in the world.
Then he said to them, «Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord; and do
not be
grieved, for the joy
of the Lord is your strength.»
He did
not create Carrie & Lowell to tell the story
of his family, he created it to
grieve the wounds and losses
of family.
They weep at hearing the law
of God, and Ezra, Nehemiah and all the priestly teachers exhort them
not to
grieve but to go and feast, for this day is holy.
verily the friends
of Allah are (those) on whom fear (cometh)
not, nor do they
grieve?
This step
of isolation is a necessary diplomatic one, probably long overdue, but it doesn't feel like enough, when I see the mass graves, when the
grieving men lift up the bodies
of their children to shove their lifeless and crippled bodies at the television cameras, here, here, here, you are keening and begging us all to look at your children, look at them, there, dead in your arms.
«Children will have different needs and different ways
of expressing their grief at different ages,» observed Susan Giambalvo, the director
of programs and operation for The Center for
Grieving Children — a nonprofit, volunteer - led program that provides free, peer - led support groups in Portland, Maine,
not far from where I live.
I'll listen to k.d. lang and long for home, I don't know what to call this season
of my life but someday I will know that I was
grieving, I was growing, I was evolving.
Death is an inevitable part
of life, but sometimes we aren't sure what to say to those who are
grieving.
While this
grieves us, it should
not surprise us, for it is the unavoidable effect
of relativism in theology and pastoral practice which has its roots in the Reformation philosophy
of private judgment which has held sway among Catholics for some decades now.
C. S. Lewis says in his book, A Grief Observed that while he was
grieving the loss
of his wife, some people told him that since God only wants what is best for us, we do
not have to fear His will.
I do
not think that death simply as such is an evil, but it does make sense to
grieve over a premature or ugly or violent death
of a sentient being.
I think that most
of those
grieving are
not even paying attention the religion the cross adheres to where as those victims families just need to fine peace and comfort somewhere and somehow out there.
Or, they may be making their REQUESTS based on what makes them feel better about THEIR loss... and guess what: when you're
grieving the loss
of a loved one, you're
not always thinking clearly about what the person believed.
And it shall come to pass at that time that the treasuries will be opened in which is preserved the number
of the souls
of the righteous, and they shall come forth, and a multitude
of souls shall be seen together in one assemblage
of one thought, and the first shall rejoice and the last shall
not be
grieved.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 - 18 — Brothers, we do
not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to
grieve like the rest
of men, who have no hope.
Everyone
grieves and shows support in different ways, this is this man's way
of doing so and when it comes down to it it's
not hurting anyone so I would say this gesture is quite sweet and sincere.
But no, Paul writes that we should
grieve, but
not in the same way as the rest
of mankind, who believe that death ends any meaningful life.
Wasn't he the one who also put up 2 crosses at Columbine, for the two students «preps», because their parents too were
grieving the loss
of their sons.
Acts
of helping people
grieve, to help bring people together and to bring awareness with the best
of intentions (whether you agree with them or
not) should be commended.