For many decades, Church leaders have counseled members that, where possible, they should gradually build a supply of food, water and financial resources to ensure they are self-reliant during disasters and the normal hardships that are part of life, including illness, injury or unemployment.
However, the story can also be, and has been, read as a story of a regular birth, stating and advocating for the humanity of Jesus, showing how the Son of God is also subject to normal human hardship (10).
This is particularly relevant when the treatment involves a series of specific regimes, such as radiotherapy, that may involve prolonged absence from home resulting in disruptions to normal life and financial hardship [ 18].
While this is not insignificant, it would not dramatically increase the buyer's normal closing costs and would not create a hardship or affect many transactional decisions.
Attempting to live a normal childhood in refugee camps, Syrian children aggrieved by hardship, loss and violence are the definition of resilience.
The essays inked into their bodies tell stories of life's hardships, gang folklore, and self-inflicted isolation from normal society.
The remaining items examine patients' social, recreational and leisure activities, ability to do normal tasks, their enjoyment of eating and drinking, and the hardship caused by their nausea and vomiting on themselves and their carers.
This salary was then subsidised by the state to avoid hardship but with the final pay-out well below normal levels.
Despite all of the hardships experienced in the three years, after conditions finally returned to normal, the Santa Ana River watershed again became a prospering agricultural region.
As in recent years, storms and heavy snowfall are likely to cause hardship for families who are struggling to survive even in normal conditions.
As if hardship and homesickness and melancholy and longing will always be a normal part of our lives.
