Sentences with phrase «ordinary living place»

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Yet our real estate has turned into a playground for the wealthy: a place for speculators to park their capital and reap huge returns, while ordinary British Columbians struggle to find a suitable place to live.

He died east of Brest, deep in the woodlands of Huelgoat, a place that had been a frequent retreat when he was a child and where his imagination had first begun to float free from its moorings in ordinary life.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

They forgot that they were all creatures of God, who chose to seek welcome in the midst of an unsettled country, to build a dwelling place with the lives of ordinary people, to make whole the earth by seeding it with heaven.

It is essentially an adventure in exploration, an exploration from God into God, and this ordinary, this extra-ordinary world in which we live is the place where the exploring must begin.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I didn't need this weird demarcation between «sacred work» and «secular work» — rather all of my life, seen and unseen, celebrated and uncelebrated, radical and utterly ordinary — all of it was a place to meet with God and to be transformed.

I'll pray these words from our brother Paul over you, too, from his letter to the Romans: «Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real world.

Ordinary families in parishes are the «place» where the Christian mystery is lived out most vividly.

Every time a person can see, even if only ironically and ambiguously, the events of his or her social and personal life illuminated by some aspect of the life and death of Jesus, then parabolic understanding is taking place, the ordinary is seen in a new context.

The sacred is not in the sky, the place of transcendent, abstract principle, but rather is based on this earth, in the ordinary dwelling places of our lives, in our gardens and kitchens and bedrooms.

Passionate basketball fans who live and breathe the Lakers but have only ordinary incomes have no hope of sitting near the court (many will be lucky to get in the arena on a regular basis in the first place).

Ex-Cabinet Minister Liam Fox said ordinary people were aware of EU migration «in their daily lives by the lack of school places, the difficulty seeing a GP and competition for housing».

And why are ordinary microbes living in an extraordinary place?

Both regular and atypical sexual inclinations got their place in the sun with regards to dating on the web, seeing as it isn't so much that simple to simply discover somebody you could spend the rest of your life with in case you're into something unusual and by and large not considered «ordinary.»

Reputable online services where you can meet a single woman or man are also places where perfectly ordinary people who have busy lives, or singles who are hoping to widen their social horizons, gather to meet and chat with each another.

If you are tired of living an ordinary life and are looking to spice it up by dating a wealthy person, MillionaireMatch.com.au is the perfect place to start your journey.

The Deep End does what too few films even attempt — it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

Like many traditional Westerns, Slow West ends in an explosive shootout that takes place around a little cabin abridging a wheat field, but the ending thwarts conventional expectations and lifts the film from the ordinary to the transcendent, suggesting that not only is there more to life than survival, but that the possibility of transformation is always present.

Saoirse Ronan's Lady Bird finds herself caught somewhere between being the kid her parents want her to be — accepting an ordinary life in Sacramento — and chasing an inner whirlwind of big dreams of big places, of people who pursue and achieve different things.

With Driver's sensitive soul as our guide, Jarmusch provides a rich, existential outlook on how recognizing artistic merit within ordinary aspects of our lives is what makes them worth living in the first place.

Roaming from place to place with Gideon Davorin's Traveling Carnival, she longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future.

On Hitler's Mountain is a powerful, intimate, riveting, and revealing account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an «ordinary» childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.

A powerful and riveting account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an «ordinary» childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.

Sometimes at BookBrowse we're so busy seeking out books set in new and interesting locations or about unexplored topics that we overlook the tales set closer to home - the endless dramas of ordinary life that take place behind our own closed doors and those of our neighbors.

I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life.

While aviculturists probably receive the lion's share of criticism, in many places, even ordinary bird owners are sometimes called upon to defend the practice of living with feathered companions.

Set in the Wyoming wilderness during the tail end of the 1980's, Firewatch places you in the shoes of Henry, an ordinary man with relationship problems hoping to get away from the stress of city life.

There is no way around it: even Bushwick is testimony to the growing place of art in ordinary lives.

The artist — popular both within and beyond the art world for his darkly subversive, laugh - out - loud drawings and sculptures — takes his place alongside Tino Sehgal, whose Tate Modern Turbine Hall piece last summer saw performers talking to gallery - goers, telling them intimate stories from their own lives; Laure Prouvost, the French - born, London - based maker of warmly mischievous installations and films; and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose apparently traditional portraits of ordinary sitters turn out to be fabrications drawn from her own imagination.

During the one month, LIU Xiaodong visited many places: he sketched the wild lives in Hluhluwe - Imfolozi Park and Blyde River Canyon and portrayed the ordinary people in Cape Town and Cape of Good Hope, to name just a few spots.

Taking the everyday as his primary subject matter, he features ordinary people, places, and things in his work, resulting in a slice - of - life portrait of the everyman.

Filmed in Croton - on - Hudson, on the filmmakers» own property north of New York City, the 45 - minute film transforms a natural world that many north - easterners shrug off as ordinary and even dull (compared to a rainforest or jungle) into a place teeming with life and stunning rituals.

The classic test for establishing ordinary residence is set out by Lord Scarman in R (Shah) v Barnet LBC [1983] 2 AC 309, 343 namely: «[that] place or country which he has adopted voluntarily and for settled purposes as part of his regular order for his life».

As a life insurance rider within your policy, having the conversion option in place enables you to convert your ordinary level term life policy into a permanent life insurance option during the coverage.

You look around to see what has caused the delay, but for the life of you, nothing out of the ordinary seems to be taking place.

Also... Below are some links to ordinary people like you and I, making a difference in the lives of others while making this world a better place to live.

I am thankful for: (a) Jesus wanting to deepen His Relationship with this ordinary woman (b) a believing husband who is as loving, faithful, and true as he was 43 years ago (c) being able to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth