Sentences with phrase «quiet days of»

Surrounded by Lilac trees, this enchanting cottage built of local marble and Bluestone is artistically decorated with period furniture to reflect the quiet days of a bygone era, but has all the comforts of today including reverse cycle air conditioning, candle - lit spa bath, spacious well appointed kitchen with wood stove generously stocked with everything you need for a hearty cooked breakfast, full laundry facilities, off street parking, colour television, CD player, video and Austar facilities.

In the quiet days of August, however, Ted often remained, capitalizing on a river that lacked prodigious July salmon runs but still contained some available salmon - and there was little competition for them.But last year, no one saw 489 Ted.

I enjoy quiet days of being with family and friends.

The order placed what seems like long ago in the quiet days of January, now is in our hands and making its way into the ground here.

By the time Black Friday rolled around, I was ready for a nice quiet day of staying in and doing a lot of nothing.

It might be best to try to time this tour with a quieter day of the week.

Not exact matches

On this day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.

To combat disruptions, she recommends setting aside blocks of quiet time throughout the day when you don't allow phone calls or email alerts.

For example, John Paul DeJoria, cofounder of Patron tequila and Paul Mitchell hair products, starts every day with five minutes of quiet reflection.

«I'm lucky that my husband has a flexible schedule — one we've shifted to accommodate his love for the early morning hours and my preference to stay in bed... Even if I'm not putting my work at the center of this time, starting out with quiet time always pays dividends later in the day.»

«The current IDF chief of staff has said the Gaza border hasn't been this quiet since the Six Days War.

«The current IDF chief of staff has said that the Gaza border hasn't been this quiet since the Six Day War [in 1967].

The hardest aspect of my job as an executive coach is trying to get CEOs such as William and Rachel to sit still for 20 minutes a day in quiet, contemplative thought.

The quiet launch is uncharacteristic for Musk, a master of hype who likes to tee up announcements days or weeks beforehand.

In recent days, there had been talk of of the world's biggest economies making an accord to quiet the volatility in currency markets.

It was a stunning development on an otherwise quiet day at Augusta National, where the course was shut down at 1:30 p.m. because of storms.

She was far more quiet during the actual open enrollment season, largely staying mum about Obamacare until the last few days of signups.

If your idea of a perfect day includes white sands, blue seas, and complimentary beach barbecues on a relatively quiet private island, Royal Caribbean International has you covered.

One of the first things I do in the quiet hours of early morning is to create an attack plan for the day.

Recalling the stress of those days, her tone goes quiet, as if she's remembering a trauma.

-- why she needed to collect herself in a quiet room before a big meeting, or had to walk the block in the middle of the day, or dreaded the aimless chitchat of work functions.

Our favorite ritual: make a list of anything you need to take care of the next day or anything nagging you; prepare anything you can for the morning — clothes laid out, keys by the door, meals ready to grab and go; and create a quiet, restful environment for sleeping.

In a quiet week, one of the main topics of interest was the Dow Utilities «4 - percent drop in the last two trading days, following a huge rally in the middle of the month.

Friday The final trading day of the week is typically quiet, but one of the few companies reporting on Friday this week will be Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI).

Give him this: President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani managed to silence Michael Avenatti — and then force his client to admit in a startling series of tweets Thursday morning that he had in fact repaid Michael Cohen $ 130,000 in hush money to keep Stormy Daniels quiet in the days leading up to the 2016 election.

The rest of the market has been quiet for several days now, with IOTA and NEO being in the center of attention, while the more established coins trading mostly in narrow ranges.

This means the stock should have traded violently on high volume for a period of about 4 weeks a year (20 trading days) and been pretty quiet the other 90 % of the time.

LoL The Prophet used to, as did all the Prophets before him, go spend a couple days in the cave of Hira» from time to time as we all do go out hiking & camping or to the top of a mountain for a vantage point, reflection, & peace & quiet, & to get away from it all, when it all becomes too much for us to deal with characters like you for instance LoL.

Those two days will likely be one of the greatest memories of my life; just a peaceful, quiet, loving and intimate two days of learning Evelynn, nursing her, seeing her skin - to - skin for hours with her Dad, eating, being cared for and even watching Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday night.

His solution might solve some of the extreme problems, and quiet some of the voices at the fringe who deny the Deity of Jesus, or the Trinity, but his solution will not help us with some of the other theological issues of our day.

It's a day for solemn remembrance, quiet knowing, for the resolve of «please never again.»

This quiet but compulsively readable column is about the spiritual life, written from the point of view of a working Parish Priest; it is, for me, the most unmissable regular contribution to the Catholic Press (I have an interest to declare here: it was I who in my days as editor of The Catholic Herald installed it as a weekly event).

If we are unable to still and to close, sometimes the Lord is gracious to quiet us on his own terms in the form of a useless day.

In that house of quiet dying, through still sheers that turn the day to gray, only two chairs of six are sat upon, the bed no longer shared.

I remember how an afternoon could pass in such a lazy way when I was that gap - toothed kid with sunshine in her hair, a day passing a slow never - ending way of sunshine and wandering, how minutes blurred into hours, and it was just the way of things, a quieter mind somehow.

This means, among other things, rising before dawn each day (Proverbs 31:15), submitting to my husband (Colossians 3:18), growing out my hair (1 Corinthians 11:15), making my own clothes, (Proverbs 31:22), learning how to cook (Titus 2:3 - 5), covering my head when in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5), calling Dan «master» (1 Peter 3:5 - 6), caring for the poor (Proverbs 31:25), nurturing a gentle and quiet spirit (1 Peter 3:4), and camping out in the backyard for the duration of my monthly period (Leviticus 15:19 - 33).

And in Luke 19, the religious leaders of the day want Jesus to keep His disciples quiet.

It may be in visiting forest or seacoast in periodic retreat, either alone or in small groups with time for solitude; it may be by seeking out the edges of wild country in park or garden in the quiet corners of the day; or for those unable to travel first - hand, it may be by preserving such spiritual topography for future generations.

In the country on a summer Sunday, when the quiet of the week's first day falls over farm and woodland, and the church bells peal their charming, lazy call to worship, how restful is the scene!

True, it is an interruption of our ordinary tasks; we do lay down our work as though it were a day of rest, when the penitent (and it is only in a time of repentance that the heavy - laden worker may be quiet in the confession of sin) is alone before Thee in self - accusation.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

I was already tired because I had been up nursing during the night, Brian was off at work already, I simply wanted a quiet morning with my coffee because there was so much mundane work ahead on this day — cleaning bathrooms, doing laundry — but instead the Rice Krispies multiplied to biblical proportions while they flew through the air and one small cereal bowl became a nuclear wasteland scattered into seemingly every corner of the kitchen while milk streamed off the edge of the table puddling into the carnage and the bowl continued to spin.

Since rereading 1 Corinthians 15 during these days of quiet bereavement I have been more than usually sensitive to the New Testament image of death as sleep, to the several connotations and implications of words in the Bible that speak of sleeping and awakening, perishing and quickening, death and resurrection.

When cometh the day we lowly ones, Through quiet reflection, and great dedication Master the art of Karate, Lo, we shall rise up, And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

Manuel Patino, a quiet, gentle little man of 95, still farms eight hours a day six days a week and goes to church every Sunday.

True, it is an interruption of our daily tasks; we do lay down our work as though it were a day of rest, when the penitent (and it is only in a time of repentance that the heavy - laden worker may be quiet in the confession of sin) is alone before Thee in self - accusation.

We may pause to ponder, that while these royal morons disported themselves in beastly passion in Antioch and Alexandria, a petty hill town of their domains, age - old Jerusalem, followed its Temple services that went their quiet way, day after day, year in and year out; and there, groups of thoughtful men reflected upon the nature of human life, reasoning that «The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,» that «The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul,» or fervently ejaculated, «Oh, how I love thy law!

Short fasts of a day or two, by quieting the mind and the body, improve mediation and contact with God, and liberate a vitality for change.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

How we took an hour and a half to walk one time around a lake that should take only 25 minutes, about how we stood on the bridge, and watched the moon fade into the coming day over the blue lake water in this western city in the country, how we ate blueberries they picked with their own hands, and we felt the wonder of it all, all three of us, quiet, and watching a ghost moon, together, and it felt like prayer, and a cathedral, and communion, and a gift, and kingdom come.