Sentences with phrase «reflecting on my life which»

What I got was a great movie and a mirror reflecting on my life which is very unexpected!

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Live events like this allow you to bring together like - minded people to connect which can reflect well on your brand.

The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many of the recurring themes of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life, death... Adding to the intimacy level, many of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

The Fathers did not reflect on the exact causality of this process, but they constantly emphasised the fact of this living relationship with Christ through «the mysteries» through which mortal men are incorporated — literally — into the Divine Life.

It's my term for the texts that function like scripture in American public life, the voices to which we are forever returning as we reflect together on what America is all about.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

Hayner reflected on his cancer diagnosis, following Christ when death is imminent, and eternal life in one of his and Labberton's final conversations, which is edited below for clarity and length.

«With practice, we can learn to reflect on how much better things are than they might be, which will in turn make the good things in life feel even better.»

Let us therefore reflect on ways in which the community nurtures and strengthens the life of faith.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

As DiNoia notes in his first chapter: The Christian claim that there is no salvation except through Jesus Christ, or the Buddhist claim that there is no attainment of Nirvana except in the following of the Excellent Eightfold Path, reflects not an unwarranted exclusivism on the part of these communities but the seriousness with which each regards the true aim of life and the means necessary to attain and enjoy it.

This places the responsibility on the teacher and the class, as reflecting the larger life of the congregation, to create the kind of interpersonal relationships in which mutual trust is possible.

He wrote Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life (which is fantastic) as well as several other ebooks.

Even then there will always be mitigating circumstances which compromise the usefulness of a dogmatic, set in concrete, approach to understanding and actually living, not merely reflecting on, life.

I explore ways in which Jacob's work reflected life as it was in the beginning in my booklet Work and the Christian Family.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationships.

To call those who actually reflect on their own spirituality and make conscious efforts to live based on a moral compass, rather than as herded sheep, self - obsessed is not only pretentious but a reflection of your indoctrination in the school of those who believe out of fear — which is worse?

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

Christian thinkers have reflected on these boundaries with respect to their fellow human beings in other cultures, and even with respect to the other animals which share our planet, but rarely with respect to the rest of life populating the universe.

Others were restored by Rabbi Akiba.35 Besides the manifest intent of providing a rationalization for the exegetical program of the rabbinic scholars, this tradition also reflects awareness of the problem of forgetfulness of those very questions and their answers on which full human life depends, and the continual need, by means of exegesis, to seek their recovery for contemporary life.

A common view of how adoptionism became incarnationism is that the moment of «adoption,» which was originally the resurrection, was, as the early communities reflected on the meaning of Jesus, moved forward into the historical life, and there pushed to an earlier and earlier point — from transfiguration, to baptism, to birth — until finally it was pushed out of the earthly life entirely and Jesus was conceived of as having been the Son of God before his birth.

I live on a fixed budget so the lasting supper isn't going to happen for me but I am grateful for this video as it really does reflect very accurately the stages which I identified as you went through them.

I've been reading Jeremy's blog for around a fortnight now and I've become an avid fan.I'm Godfrey from India.The insights on the love of God in this blog are astounding and I'm so happy that there's no hostility towards different interpretations of the bible so as to reflect the love of christ and comprehend every single verse in terms of God's love.I love Jeremy's insight and Glory to God.I believe that every action of God is borne out of love and he is the source of love which sustains life.

It is a thoughtful book in which Smith reflects on the problems raised by the study of the religious thought and practices of the people of Asia, problems of historical method, of literary criticism, of language, of social organization, and of the values and standards by which men guide their lives.

Ralf Dahrendorf, writing in the New York Times, reflects on Weber's notion of politics and comments that «Havel's every page breathes the spirit that made him the authentic spokesman of the Eastern European revolution of 1989, which was in his words about «living in truth.»

In reflecting on these themes, I have invited you to join me on a life journey of good aging — a journey which, no matter how old or young you are today, can begin afresh right now.

Our program is a mix of texts and literature, with an emphasis on literature, as well as a lot of learning - through - play and life - learning which booklists don't reflect.

My emphasis on culture, knowledge, and the inheritance of critical reflection reflects my own experience, as a product of postwar Cambridge, in which literary criticism had a central place in the life of the university.

I'm currently in a state of life pondering these things and reflecting on your last sentence in your reply... which is to say, even before I found your blog.

What the argument by probability does is to reflect on the «fine - tunedness» of a universe in which life can exist, reflects on the chance of life occurring through purely random events, and concludes that the chance of life coming into existence through purely random forces of nature is so infinitesimally small as to be almost non-existent.

In pre-modern times people saw themselves as living in a fixed and eternal cosmic order, which the structures of society were expected to reflect (for example, «Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven»).

From his prison cell Bonhoeffer reflected on life's centeredness in God, which allows for its concomitant diversity.

As I've been studying photography and applying what I'm learning to my own work, I've been reflecting on the luxury that living in Seattle provides; as I mentioned the other day, the city has a multitude of farmers markets, some of which operate year - round, and it's no problem to find grocery stores stocking quality, whole, organic items.

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

This morning's press reaction reflects the game which, for Celtic fans in particular, will live long on the memory.

Kors» empire, which ranges from sportswear to home essentials, always reflects the designer's chic, luxurious take on modern life.

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

MPs said the economic case for HS2 was based on «fragile numbers, out - of - date data and assumptions which do not reflect real life».

At 7 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio appears live on NY1's «The Road to City Hall,» which has changed its name to reflect the 2017 mayor's race.

By participating in Alert 2000 I removed myself from my comfort zone, which allowed me to reflect on my personal values, needs, and desires in preparation for the biggest career decision of my young professional life.

The strontium ratios of Mesolithic peoples along the Danube reflected the river sediments on which they lived.

As proposed by Andrew Goldsworthy in 1987, cyanobacteria and later chloroplast - related protists and plants developed after microbes that used a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs green light dominated the oceans, and so the new photosynthetic cyanobacteria were forced to use the left - over light with chlorophyll that reflects green light, which was too complex to change even after purple - reflecting photosynthetic lifeforms were no longer dominant (Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, September 10, 2010 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

Bratman, who himself had a food fixation while living on a commune in upstate New York, chose the prefix «ortho» — which in Greek means straight, correct, true — to reflect the obsession with maintaining a perfect diet.

Dr. Brad Jacobs reflects on the pivotal moments in his personal life which inspired him to push for awareness of integrative medicine and changed his opinion about healthcare.

is making me pull out all the cheesy bloom - related quotes for this post, which in turn is making me reflect on where I am at this point in my life.

After 2 weeks that I've been here, only now have I started to feel that I'm getting back into some sort of balance... Maybe not a life balance but an inner kind of balance... Balance in which my soul and heart are feeling good and this reflects on everything around me.

Sunday is the day in which you check out of the daily worries of your life, and nourish your spirit, reflecting on the good days to come.

The 4th of July is the time when we celebrate our nation — a time to reflect on the freedoms which we believe are not granted by Insights on parenting, relationships, education and life, from mothers of multiples raising twins, triplets, quadruplets and more.