This season of life with work and tinies and community is full and precious and wonderful and magical, absolutely.
It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just
the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)
In
this season of life with a toddler, I so appreciate simplicity when it comes to our meals.
Looking forward to living
this season of my life with... Read More
Not exact matches
Facebook has struck a deal
with Major League Baseball to show 20
of the league's games
live this
season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world
of live programming.
In advance
of the new
season of Blue Collar Millionaires, we sat down
with Connie Lorenz to ask what it was like to whistle - blow on the president, and how her
life has changed since.
The network is hosting a three - hour primary
season special featuring
live, individual interviews
with each
of the five remaining presidential candidates.
Contestants pitch
live, on stage
with a crowd
of their peers for the chance to be featured in
season two
of the web series «Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.»
As for Ogwumike, she said she makes the bulk
of her
living playing basketball in Russia,
with the Dynamo Kursk squad, in the off -
season.
So the teen and her mom sold transparent «
living lockets» (which can be customized
with charms inside
of them) at a mall kiosk one holiday
season.
Rosé
Season: Cruises & CampsIf you
live in the Northeast
of the U.S., you're probably familiar
with Wolffer Estate Vineyard, which has been making rosé since 1992, ever since winemaker Roman Roth arrived and took one look at the cool climate
of Long Island and thought: rosé.
Our
seasoned professional experts —
with decades
of experience in their chosen fields — will deliver the on - target information you need to get the real picture about
living, buying or starting up a business in Panama.
Come hurricane
season, which runs from June through November, residents
living in coastal communities have to deal
with the possibility
of evacuating their homes when a hurricane is approaching.
The cold open
of the
Season 43 premiere
of NBC's «Saturday Night
Live» wrapped
with the president (Alec Baldwin) draping his arm around the shoulders
of Sen. Chuck Schumer (Alex Moffat) explaining, «We're both New Yorkers, we enjoy a good slice, we never go to Times Square and we both love saying...
I choose to
live life to the fullest through joy
of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness,
seasons, animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather than accidental and inconsequential
life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete
with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.
with thanks to BJK Author: Jeffrey Marx Title:
Season of Life Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date: Copyright 2003 by Jeffrey Marx Pages: 43, 48 - 50
Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Man hood by Jeffrey Marx by Simon & Schuster Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2004-08-24
It has to do
with the
seasons of life — and sometimes those
seasons are junky.
2nd Timothy 4:1 - 5 1 In the presence
of God and
of Christ Jesus, who will judge the
living and the dead, and in view
of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in
season and out
of season; correct, rebuke and encourage —
with great patience and careful instruction.
I wonder about this
season of my
life now — am I dealing well
with this new
season?
Because there are two periods
of time — the one that now is, beset
with the trials and troubles
of this
life, and the other yet to come, a
life of everlasting serenity and joy — we are given two liturgical
seasons, one before Easter and the other after.
The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning
with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing
seasons of the
life cycle
of a family.
One
season blurred into another,
with pictures taken on the beach mixed
with those
of pajama - clad kids in our
living room.
By pairing practical ministries
of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along
with the Truth
of who Jesus is, regardless
of the
season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.
If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our sexual
lives, the solution to the problem
of what it means to be a sexual being, we're only going to come up
with false rules and standards, ways
of being that force some people out and others in, models
of holiness that may work for one
season of life but fall apart in another.
Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months
of the year along one side and three sets
of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the
seasons of the year beginning
with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church
life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its
life and mission beginning
with Advent.
We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams
of living water, that bears fruit in
season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over
with all kinds
of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind
of church we want to be.»
Meanwhile, I heard people saying that they looked forward to stewardship
season because at that time members offered short reflections, called «giving moments,» about their walk
with God in the
life of our church.
But the indirect sources have no chronology
of Jesus»
life to be synchronized
with the Gospels; information about Palestine is merely used (16 - 18) to identify the
season or year fitting Gospel allusions (e.g. harvest in the spring; 5th year
of Tiberius as A.D. 28).
So much
of spiritual growth, I'm finding, is adding tools to the toolbox, and connecting
with God in ways that are right for each
season of life.
I've been a Christian most
of my
life, and part
of what sustains me, I think, is that along the way, when in one
season my faith stopped making sense to me, when it stopped connecting
with me in a deep way, I had the tools and imagination I needed to refashion my faith.
You swear you're never going to forget what it's like «in the trenches»
with small children when you're in the midst
of it but then you get just a few years out
of that intense
season of life and then a toddler shows up and you're all, «Oh, good gracious, I forgot how busy this
season is!»
There were many books during that
season of my
life that resonated
with me, but one that I often refer back to for those new to the concept is Phyllis Tickle's Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why.
The
seasons of our
life and the
seasons of the church year have «equipped the saints»
with prayer, compassion, courage, strength, humor and other fruits
of the Holy Spirit.
Nope, it's the good, hard, real work
of life, the repetitive work, the work that lets me rock back onto my heels
with a satisfied feeling, a look - what - I - have - accomplished sense, that saves me in these
seasons.
Every
season of life offers its own challenges that require community, and not the kind
of community that segregates into teens, singles, young marrieds, married
with kids or otherwise.
«Well beyond the monastic cloister, numerous faithful have benefited from his project,» wrote Pope John Paul II, «becoming aware that the unfolding
of the «mystical
seasons»
of the liturgical year» can help them «to relive the different stages
of the Mystery
of Christ... It is by their participation in liturgical
life in the heart
of the ecclesial community that the faithful are to affirm their faith, because they are put in permanent contact
with the sources
of revelation and the whole
of the Christian mystery.»
Wherever
life may take us, regardless
of our choices or our roles or our story, regardless
of the
seasons of our
lives,
of our failures and imperfections, let us make
living like we are beloved warriors the radical discipline
of our
lives, filling our minds and our hearts
with the truth
of Jesus Christ, and the goodness
of the freedom he offers to us as his own.
Once she was able to see this stage
of her faith as an invitation to deeper trust and companionship
with Jesus» suffering, her anguish was ended and she began a new, more empowered
season of life and work.
Yahweh is not some sort
of Baal, a blind and brutal natural force... His destiny, like that
of His people, is not identical
with the cycle
of the
seasons, the regular succession
of the day and the night, the growth and decay
of the vegetation; Yahweh is the Lord
of history, whose word alone creates and preserves Israel in
life.»
He said that because, even though I made my peace
with The Ache, even though I was in complete agreement that we were done
with our three, even though I was ready for this new
season of life without any babies in my arms, there was still that part
of me that longed for one more.
is it Thursday in Australia...; — RRB - but seriously... I have just started a book and in one part it is talking about the
seasons of our
life long walk
with the Lord, in fact I just read it yesterday.
«I started writing music in a
season of my
life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had
with that,» he says.
If you're interested in incorporating structured prayer into your devotional
life, I recommend starting
with The Book
of Common Prayer, a Psalter, and Phyllis Tickle's The Divine Hours (there is one for each
season).
In some cases this means continuing the author's lead in A Sort
of Life, which, for instance, presents the horrors
of boarding school (on the other side
of the «green baize door» from his family quarters) as a
season in hell, replete
with demonic adversaries among the student body.
I resonated
with much
of the book because I have often walked through
seasons of my
life that I have called «depression» because I didn't know what else to call it even though I knew it wasn't the clinical version
of this very real disease.
«2 Tim 4:1 - 2 1 I charge you in the presence
of God and
of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the
living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in
season and out
of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort,
with complete patience and teaching.»
Part
of this culture
of criticism surrounding singleness comes in the implicit judgment that if a person is single later in
life (and by that, I mean after 25), there must be something wrong
with him or her — single for a reason, as opposed to single for a
season.
most
of what i was going to say has all ready been said, especially by frank emmanual above... i pray the new
season is filled
with ever new
life for you and the family...
Life is not simple and our response to the challenges surrounding mental health needs to be
seasoned with the same wisdom and honesty shown by Warren: «In God's garden
of grace, even broken trees bear fruit.»
It seeks to be deeply and broadly biblical, and it is
seasoned with lively vignettes from the
life of what has been an extraordinarily vibrant congregation.