When it comes to animals, One Life assures us, "we see so much of us in them and them in us: grace, determination and even love".
Once the sinner is forgiven, they are assured that he or she is "right with God," will never again need to confess that sin and are free to go on with life, assured of salvation.
With this knowledge, I got through school somehow and walked with open arms into university life, assured by promises of diversity and inclusivity that things would finally be different.
Palin is perceived by its leaders -- and followers -- not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl who parachuted into their backwater towns to lift them from the drudgery of everyday life, assuring them that they represented the "Real America".
The world is an increasingly unstable place, the future uncertain, both gain and loss in life assured but if we can strive to live each day with a dedication to these three fundamental principles - Truth, Love and Compassion - for ourselves, for each other, for the Earth - what more could ever be asked from us?
And it's an extraordinary thing, because people suddenly understand that at no time in our lives is life assured.
Now survivability is assured and removing her from life assuring machines isn't the same thing as not putting her on them initially because of her previous wishes.
Actual death cuts life off at the quick of your soul, but there is yet the quick to tell you what life was, assure you that life was.
But in theory there's nothing like bringing her to stage life to assure a new measure of immortality.
It's very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality.
It slashes trillions of dollars from health care, nutrition and other critical programs that give poor babies and children a decent foundation in life to assure trillions of dollars in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and powerful corporations who do not deserve massive doses of government support.
