He's led a clean and
sober life in Amsterdam since the events of the first film, which ended with him stealing thousands of dollars from his friends.
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Part of the reason I wrote the book was so
in the culture, we could have a conversation about this, a substantive, civil,
sober conversation on the meaning of
life and the nature of reality.
It is
sobering to reflect upon the role of accidental circumstance
in the founding of «process theology,» which
lives in large measure from Whitehead's discovery of the consequent nature of God.
I realize it's only because of unmerrited favor (i.e. grace), that I got
sober, but it's difficult for me to select which of the steps keep me
sober, so I need to put all twelve, as explained
in the big book, into my
life.
It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory
in the midst of the
sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day
life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33
As this vocation is
lived in the
sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian twaddle.
The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members
in the tangible and
sober reality of everyday
life.
Understanding that the world around us is constantly getting older as we do is
sobering in so many ways God meant it to be, reminding us daily of our humanity and our need for Him and the
life that He provides.
I'd rather be
sober and (relatively) unhappy
in the face of reality,
living my
life in this natural world, than to lie to myself and
live in a fantasy world.
Del, sorry I missed your post earlier... What you wrote is a
sobering reality for many people, but many will tuck it
in deep within themselves, and refuse to deal with it, thinking that if they leave it alone, it'll go away... People just don't know what playing with things which are supposed to be sacred
in our
lives and taking them lightly, causes and where it leads to.
There are millions that are
sobering up
in AA without the Christian Faith / Bible / Jesus, etc. and are
living happy, productive,
lives.
It is
sober fact
in the light of which all
life is most realistically to be
lived.
The Bible constantly reminds us to be vigilant,
sober - minded and alert because we can easily forget and slumber
in our spiritual
lives.
I believe that a
sober and instructed criticism of the Gospels justifies the belief that
in their central and dominant tradition they represent the testimony of those who stood nearest to the facts, and whose
life and outlook had been moulded by them.
Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten
sober and stayed
sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at
Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity
in general, with whatever works for them.
Just as the family rejoices
in a renewed
life of their
sober child, brother or sister, all of Heaven rejoices when one who was lost to their drug of choice, or sin, renounces it, and accepts Jesus.
If Americans are not educated, industrious and
sober; if our streets are violent and our sexuality pagan; if our family
life is unstable and our personalities unsound —
in short, if America has lost its moral stature and thus its national self - respect, then, for religious conservatives, it is the fault of those who prate of freedom and sow anarchy — not the least cause being liberal religionist loss of proper faith.
A major block
in the spiritual
life of the drinking alcoholic, which often continues as a barrier during his
sober life, is a magical understanding and use of religion.
Learning to
live a
sober life,
in a dignified and gracious way, was a gift I learned from the folks
in AA (regardless of their spiritual or religious or agnostic / atheist bent).
But time and place are strong medicine for many
in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a
sobering story
in the
lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.
Scared Straight Fresh off a
sobering 90 - day stay
in a Texas jail, free - agent halfback Bam Morris is trying to put his
life and career back together
But at the same time, Brian's
sobering story makes clear that millions of American children
live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.
Lane wrote that Meyers was staying with a
sober living companion and a bodyguard at the moment, because there is a months - long wait to get into a hospital facility
in Ireland.
But it's clear that Facebook and other social networking sites has made
life more challenging for people
in relationships, and a
sobering study recently published
in the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy indicates how ill - equipped most therapists are
in dealing with Internet infidelity:
Just thinking of all the things I might need for an infant made my head swim, and imagining how much more challenging this transition would be for women who
living in poverty is a
sobering thought.
Hutton,
in contrast,
sobered proceedings by reminding us that we are
living through the longest and deepest recession since the 1870s.
I think a
sober assessment is that up till now, almost all of us who work
in theoretical physics have failed to
live up to Einstein's legacy.
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Over the years, some alarming estimates have suggested upwards of a thousand or more individuals, but the researchers» census came to a much more
sober figure: 118 individuals
living in four separate social groups.
A few years back, Erez Lieberman - Aiden got a
sobering lesson
in how difficult it still is to understand the code of
life: His professor had spent six long months just trying to calculate the distance between two pieces of a genome.
«It was extremely
sobering sometimes to see the circumstances some people are
living in,» said Goodwin.
Jesse
lives a
sober life, having overcome her battle with alcoholism over three years ago, and worked
in recovery before realizing that she preferred helping others
in their pursuit of fitness and overall wellbeing.
He had never practiced before, he had never been
sober for more than a week
in the last four years of his
life, and he could NOT wait to get to the next pose.
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If someone is struggling to stay
sober, I don't think I'd include that
in a profile (but I also might suggest that person postpone dating online while they work on that area of their
life).
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in your
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Sheen's bad - boy image turned especially grim
in 1998, when he was hospitalized for drug and alcohol abuse; after a short -
lived stay
in rehab, Sheen gave sobriety another try, and by 1999 he was, by all accounts, clean and
sober and ready to get his career back on track.
Rafi moves out of
sober living and
in with Nelson.
From a simple story of personal struggle, Zhao coaxes forth a stirring ode to a little - seen, hard - scrabble way of
life and a
sobering portrait of masculinity
in crisis.
Whatever its bias or excisions, MOH rejects the sort of gung - ho globetrotting baloney seen
in Modern Warfare, and makes an honest attempt not to trivialise the
lives of US soldiers, creating an air of
sober authenticity which is unusual among shooters.
Maura Tierney is the guest star
in this arc, as yet another crazy complication that Tommy willingly invites into his volatile
life, already tipping over the scale as he tries to balance affairs with his ex-wife (Andrea Roth) and his cousin's widow (Callie Thorne), keep his youngest daughter from fleeing him
in shame and embrace his alcoholism and return to the bottle, dragging all the
sober members of his family with him.
There's little sentiment
in the movie, and while there is an understandable sense of a pat on the back for the key characters (most of whom are based on real -
life people), there's a
sobering lack of triumphalism
in its handling.
Watch her as she tears up brilliantly during her first AA meeting, deftly handles an awkward come on from her boss, and, like a woman possessed, drunkenly rails against her husband
in the film's most cinematic moment as she declares she can not have a
sober life living with him.