Getting to where I can recognize the grand scale of damage in nearly everyone else's life somehow makes it that much easier to bare the hurts that I have, even if all I can do is give one more person the realization «it's not just me...» that
those other broken people gave me.
Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love
other broken people well.
Not exact matches
The IRS also provides tax
breaks for
people donating
other assets, such as certain wines, art and land.
Several thousand
people protested in Warsaw and
other cities after police
broke up a blockade of the entrances to parliament in the early hours of Saturday.
Cohabitating couples may also want to consider healthcare proxy forms so that one
person can make medical decisions for the
other person if necessary (just be sure to update those forms later if you
break up).
Hacker hires can be roughly
broken into two categories: hiring the
person who hacked your system, and hiring the
person who hacked some
other company's system.
In 1969, government officials noticed that 155
people with high incomes were legally using so many deductions and
other tax
breaks and that they were paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes.
Along the way, I have become increasingly aware of the mistakes
other people make when they take a
break from their companies.
«There's obviously the threat [of sanctions] against
others, but... it's surprising, to me at least, how few
people have
broken with Maduro,» he said during the AS / COA event.
But none of the
broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for
people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among
other education - related cuts.
Likable
people avoid
breaking the rhythm by not talking out of turn, asking an ill - timed question or finishing the
other person's sentences.
«When we were designing the space, we wanted to figure out ways for
people to go back there for new experiences in the same space,» says Carlton DeWoody of the New York firm Reunion, designer of the Wildwood Lodge, listing coffee
breaks, work time, social hour, meals and
other uses supported in a lounge filled with trivia and board games.
We're dealing with a system in which
other people who are arrested do not have that privilege, and we're trying to
break down the notion that there's preferential treatment for law enforcement because that is what is separating law enforcement from communities that they are supposed to serve and that's what is making it harder for them to get intelligence from those communities to solve crimes.
The two main pitfalls in
breaking down this debate are that
people recommend one over the
other definitively, or they only evaluate the utility of either in a very narrow context.
Not only does it force you to
break out of your rut and apply fresh thinking to the situation, it can also «liberate the
other person.
Other people are trying to
break that mold, but it's hard going.
The consolidation of distributors in North America has reached a
breaking point and I think there are plenty of
people in beverage alcohol looking for
other options.»
Another tactic is to reframe the assignment,
breaking it into smaller pieces that
other people can work on.
The principle doesn't work when
people use their income to pay mortgages on increasingly expensive homes and pay credit card debts and
other loans they have had to take out just to
break even as the economic screws have been tightened.
This can be a great income tax
break for freelancers and
other self - employed
people and those who travel a lot for work.
Taxpayers would lose the ability to deduct their state and local property and
other taxes from their federal taxes, a
break used by about 44 million
people (or 30 percent of tax filers.)
Many
people in America, Western Europe and East Asia would welcome a Russian initiative that would
break from the monetarist orthodoxy that the IMF and U.S. AID have imposed on third world countries, East Asian economies (including even Japan) and
other regimes throughout the world.
But when news
broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17
people and injured more than a dozen
others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classmate.
Oh, gim me a
break people - passengers making a scene because some
other people were praying in a language they don't understand.
Ah, good analogy there, giving
people a
break that
others won't get in order to help them feed their addiction.
On one hand, we are called to love all
people (like God loves us); on the
other hand, we dislike this sin so much we
break our
other hand.
I also see this dis - repsect we give to gay
people as a
breaking away from the idea «treat
others how you want to be treated» (I know I wouldn't want to be shunned for something I can not choose to change).
The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax
breaks, special exemptions of
other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive
people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.
As far as
other religions it has been scientifically proven that all religions are based off Christianity but most religion
broke him into many gods because they could not fathom one
person doing all he does..
It's a personal challenge to me to live out this question in how I relate to
others —
other real,
broken people in their unique contexts.
The «Down with Empire» folks like to try to convince us that they can make an omelette without
breaking any eggs, but to this date all they do is eat the omelette the was made by
other people breaking eggs while calling them names.
I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the
people I care about at the
other churches, but yet I feel lonely, worthless, and completely
broken at the current church I'm at because of the drama.
The poll basically
breaks white Americans down into three categories: white
people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white
people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed
other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white
people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.
(CNN)- When the news
broke the
other day that Philip Seymour Hoffman would receive a Catholic funeral on Friday, a few
people on social media expressed surprise.
If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the
people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by
breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at
others, by being obedient to the point of death.
Eventually,
people started killing each
other, small wars
broke out, and finally, government officials had to step in, take sides, and in order to maintain peace, declare one faction the «winner.»
What I was doing (with
others) was helping
people in crisis, helping alcholics and drug addicts, victims of abuse, the poor, helping
people to escape the occult, those spiritually oppressed and abused,
broken marriages etc..
For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the
person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle
broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow
other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.
They show that the Old Testament can, and must, be read as a Christian book, prophetic of Jesus; that the paradox that the Messiah should suffer death can be understood in the light of the scriptures; and that the risen Lord's presence, even if it is not recognized at
other times, is to be discerned when he encounters his
people in the
breaking of bread (the Church's Eucharist).
It also creates in us a sense of our oneness with all
other people and with all life and so it inspires empathy for the poor and a concern to
break down the unjust structures of society.
I am just horrified that the
other people in your story swept abuse under the rug but given my own family history, that is exactly what they do and I am still being punished for «
breaking the code of silence.»
It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that
persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that
persons are denied
other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are
broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.
On the part of the minister there is an empathetic or phenomenological concern for the attitudes of all the
other people (and their conditions such as
broken arms) to all serious things, including Christian faith but not confined to it, regardless of the existing content of those views and conditions.
The Kingdom symbol's positive emphasis is clearly on the surprising character of God's activity and on concern for
other persons — especially those who are poor,
broken, dying, and in despair.
Some
people find the belief in a higher power to assist in drawing the focus away from the substance;
others, unbelievers, may find it more helpful to learn
other tools to
break that focus.
For example, Daniel 2:44, And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to
other people, but it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
It
breaks itself free from the ties of bondage, finds new found freedom, prospers in it until it is realized that some
people do better than
others.
This seems to imply that a
person who
breaks the law and teaches
others to do so may nevertheless be in the kingdom of heaven.
There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of human standing over against each
other, the encapsulation must and can be
broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick
person in his relations to otherness — to the world of the
other which he can not remove into his soul.
Other than a quick nasty response from certain
people, the silent treatment has definitely been the long term strategy of absolutely every church I have ever
broken up with that I had any real involvement with at all.