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I used to cling to those kinds of promises because
the pain we were experiencing as a congregation is so intense.
The necklace serves as an eye - catching accessory for your little one, while simultaneously alleviating
any pain they are experiencing as they go through the teething process.
Not exact matches
Firoozeh Dumas
was fortunate to have
experienced as little
pain as she did after her surgery in Germany.
As Josh explains, «We weren't looking for a problem to solve - it found us since we had
experienced this
pain point while running our own prior businesses.»
The talk show host concluded: «Here
's what I'll
be very disappointed in: If Trump does lose,
as I
am very confident that he will, and let
's say it
's not super close, if he loses by a significant margin and Sean Hannity and people like him have not
experienced some significant career
pain, if not destruction, because of their role, then it
's over.
While she praised the organization's commitment and weight, she noted that it
was experiencing «growing
pains»
as it attempts to keep up with the rapidly changing campaign landscape, where one successful viral video can eclipse a deluge of paid advertisements.
The researchers asked study participants to determine from photographs if people
were experiencing feelings such
as loss, victory or
pain from facial expressions or body language alone, or from both.
As long as we are building an experience that solves their main pain points, we are moving in the right direction.&raqu
As long
as we are building an experience that solves their main pain points, we are moving in the right direction.&raqu
as we
are building an
experience that solves their main
pain points, we
are moving in the right direction.»
Businesses that
are experiencing temporary cash flow squeeze
as a result of increasing sales, growing
pains, expansion, seasonal fluctuations, acquisitions, high leverages, insufficient or used up credit lines.
Uber receipts
are difficult to handle
as well, a
pain when doing expenses, Lyft
is a much better
experience for receipts, tipping and not to mention they hold a much higher standard of ethics
as a business which counts.
Having worked
as a firefighter for over thirty years, having worked
as a grief counselor for over five years, having
experienced lots of
pain, suffering and sorrow
as a hypnotherapist, to allow those in grieve, to
be able to share their feelings and emotions in a non-judgmental atmosphere
is huge.
I decided to take this job because I've seen through my own
pain and
experiences this last year that we
as pastors and leaders
are living «between the dreaming and the coming true» (credit goes to Robert Benson for that phrase).
Takeaway for me
is that the
pain / suffering / rejection we
experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve
as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive
are God's way of branding / choosing us
as his own...
But both Ike and I have
experienced the new creation
as a club that can
be used, often with the best of intentions, to assault our human truths and cause lies,
pain and sometimes even death.
The last sensation I remembered had
been incomprehensible
pain, then a tunnel, and a grinding noise
as described in other «near death
experiences.»
Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators
being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who
experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma,
as well
as nerve
pain and similar physical impacts.
I love it because of your honesty, and I love it because I think it echoes what a lot of people
experience in churches when they suspect abuse, but don't say anything - the ignoring of the intuitions, the pull of «belonging» to the greater group, the shame associated with telling, the
pain when they * do * tell and then
are immediately ostracized (so painful, when I
'm guessing you thought you «belonged» at the table, and
were only participating
as you thought you had right to?
If this couple
was indeed rejected because of their race,
as a Southern Baptist I
'm embarrassed, frustrated, and I apologize to the couple on behalf of the Convention for the hurt and emotional
pain they've
experienced,» Land's statement continued.
She
's experienced pain as a result of this because it means she invests in relationships, only to have them sometimes get broken.
If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard
as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further
pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient
experiences;
is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed
as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative
experience for the patient.
However if your claim has
been inaccurate, then just
as equally, the
pain I will have
experienced will have
been as a result of
being wronged by you.
If I can not learn to find peace in the midst of anticipation, I will never
experience the joy of contentment, for «we know that the whole creation has
been groaning
as in the
pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
The God we encounter there
is the God in whom we live and move and have our
being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to
experience all of its
pain alongside of us, the God who —
as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than
be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.
As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we hav
As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in
Pain, to someone who suffers
pain, nothing
is more certain than the
pain; she suggests that the
experience of
pain may
be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we hav
as close to a textbook case of «certainty»
as we hav
as we have.
Mike Keffer writes about the
pain of
being condemned
as a heretic by the leaders of his church, and how this
experience freed him from religion so he could better follow Jesus.
If God
is conceived so
as not to favor our struggle for liberation, then God
is thereby conceived so
as not to
experience fully our
pain and suffering.
This post
was actually written several years ago when I
was indeed going through a very difficult time in my life, and nearly every top Christian song that hit the radio sounded empty and meaningless,
as if those who wrote them had never
experienced any real
pain or hardship.
Last summer my cousin Antwyn Golden
was murdered and I wrote a song about forgiving his killer
as Christ forgave me, it wasn't an easy or overnight process and I turned to other things to fill the empty void but they
were unsatisfying and only left me emptier, Christ
was truly the only reason that I didn't go crazy, retaliation
is never the answer its just continuing the destructive vicious cycle of nothingness and putting another family through the same
pain that you
experienced and no one wins in that.
If our families of origin invoke
pain and suffering in our hearts (our
experience of the flesh,
as Paul would say), we can
be comforted by the knowledge that we
are adopted into another family — literally,
as is the case for the Robertses, or spiritually and ultimately, for everyone who becomes a Christian and
is redeemed by God in Christ.
I think that many of us who
experienced pain and shame
as children
are very sensitive to the
pain and humiliation of others.
I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer —
was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All
is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even
as he
experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he
experienced regret and
pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.
Similarly, in her earlier role
as an instructing judge on Southwark's diocesan marriage tribunal Chiara
was able to bring together theology and her own
experience of marriage to help others in
pain — those whose marriages had broken down.
God
is not to
be perceived
as an abstract remote deity insensitive to the deepest religious feelings which grow out of
experiences of
pain, suffering, death, and human agony.
Luke had
been at
pains to make clear that the risen Jesus
was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to
be regarded
as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the
experience of the risen Christ
was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts
was written, it had to
be made clear that this kind of
experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.
It
is as though empirical theologians accepted Whitehead's claim that, apart from the consolations of religion, life seems to
be «a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of
pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient
experience» (SMW 192).
As most adults, I've lost several family members including a husband, and have
experienced my own illness / situations, and
being in those
experiences while they
were happening, in all their
pain and disappointment,
is mostly what enabled me to cope and to grow.
But, although some of the specific
experiences, such
as pains, may
be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,»
as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such
as thoughts and decisions,
are not, but
are based upon the mind's self - determination.
Not only has it given traditional theists such
as Plantinga an «opportunity for an easy victory» but, more importantly, it has allowed such theists to avoid addressing the real question that evil poses: Given the incredible amount and pervasiveness of the
pain and suffering that continues to
be experienced by actual individuals,
is there some plausible reason not to assume «that God
is guilty of nonexistence» (ER 46)?
They likely will
experience growing
pains as they attempt to separate the musical wheat from the chaff, but their endeavor
is certainly commendable and worthy of support and serious interest.
Such interventions may prevent immediate consequences such
as loss of a job, but the long - range results
are usually negative in that they deprive the alcoholic of his right to
experience the
pain which might bring him to the point of openness to help.
When these things happen
as a result of sin, God
is grieved because, like a loving parent, He does not want His children to
experience pain and suffering.
One minister wrote of his loneliness
as a clergyman: «I have driven in the dark in my little silver Accord on more than one occasion, realizing that there
is no one within 50 miles of where I live with whom I can share my deepest
pain or joy, no place where I can
experience the quiet exultation and peace of complete acceptance.»
God has not sinned No other way for the world to function God «feels bad» about it Empathy
is coming along side God
experiences our suffering Saying you
're sorry for their
pain God notices Cares about what we
're going through Saying I
'm sorry
is not the same
as saying «Forgive me.»
God
is affected by the
pain of creatures,
is genuinely responsive to their calls, acquires
experiences as a result of these interactions that
were not present beforehand — all ideas familiar to readers of process theology (or Jürgen Moltmann's The Cruel God).
God
is affected by the
pain of creatures,
is genuinely responsive to their calls, acquires
experiences as a result of these interactions that
were not present beforehand — all ideas familiar to readers of process theology.
Yet nuns and other women who insist that they have a call to the priesthood and use their
pain as evidence for an authentic interior call from God
are, in fact, using the protean politics of
pain and not Catholic theology to explain their
experiences.
The rewards and penalties
are produced by manipulation of corpuscular societies and structured societies so
as to change the strength of beauty (very roughly, the measure of pleasure or
pain)
experienced by the person who
is being coerced.
It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I
am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba
were a large animal, so
as to come within the every day
experience of human
beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and
pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis
as we attribute these things to the dog.»
The only realistic picture of the universe we can have
is one in which there
is both order and chaos, one in which chaos
is just
as primordial
as is order.24 If we begin with this fact and keep returning to it, then we will
be able to render the idea of God compatible with the cosmos after all, including its
experiences of
pain.