A symbol of Hawaii, leis are worn on all special occasions and given to family and friends
as gifts of love.
This distinction seems unnecessary, provided we recognize, as Jesus did, that it comes
as the gift of a loving God.
These acts of service like vacuuming, shoveling the snow, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived
as a gift of love.
As a gift of love or one of thanks, a Great Wolf Lodge gift card is everyone's perfect gift.
Serve every day to ensure an optimal supply of important nutrients and
as a gift of love... real genetically appropriate natural food your pet dreams about.
These acts of service like vacuuming, shoveling the snow, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived
as a gift of love.
Not exact matches
As per above, post it more than that percentage
of people
love to receive
gift cards instead
of other
gifts there are two benefits
of gift cards if you give someone he can buy whatever he want or he can sell it for cash.
Gennette's plan, dubbed «North Star» in a nod to Macy's logo, leans heavily on the «
Gifts We
Love» approach, stressing the idea
of Macy's
as not just a store but a retail «authority» — a favorite word
of the imposing 56 - year - old CEO.
Knowing that photography was huge, that everyone is a photographer, that everyone is taking amazing pictures — including kids and my 70 - something mom — I had a hunch that everyone has a lot
of photos they don't care a lot about, but everyone also has a few pictures they
love and would
love to make into something physical, either for themselves or
as a
gift.
Instead
of giving toys or clothes for birthdays, holidays, or other occasions, ask
loved ones to make a
gift this way,
as it can make a more lasting impact on a child's life.
In the body
of the e-mail, Yaffe wrote «Just wanted to follow - up with you and put this to bed ASAP... In a perfect world would
love to have you wire him back $ 170,000 and
gift him 15,000 shares
of Retrophin stock and that would fulfill the note obligation and more importantly doing the right thing and manning up
as we spoke about.»
To have a God that keeps sinner alive and burning for their misconduct in life,
as well
as their rejection
of the
Gift of Savlation in Christ is not a God
of love, but is most sadistic.
As well, we remember that we have been blessed in the past with the
gift of prophecy, that is, speaking the truth and speaking compassionately and candidly into people's lives with words
of hope, courage and
love.
LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because
of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some
of the
gifts He's given us — such
as some capacity to reason, create, and
love, though all imperfectly.
This is the central point
of man that is different than animal
as we were
gifted with capacity to worship God (worship is closely connected with the emotive expressions
of love).
-- V.Sullivan, but
as long
as we work out our own salvation, he will be sorry for not even accepting his free
gift of salvation that Christ so humbly and
loving offers him and everyone else.
As one who has attended a week - long prophetic school, who
loves the true prophetic
gift, sadly I have to say my experience has been that most
of the time it was charismatic fortunetelling in action (Derek Prince's term).
Children learn to flourish in a context in which they are
loved unconditionally and are encouraged to think
of themselves
as dependent,
as grateful recipients
of a
gift to which they have no rightful claim.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right
as eternal life is a free
gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation
of the reward but because we
love the Lord.regards brent
With John Paul, they pay special attention to the family
as the heart
of society, a «living reflection
of and real sharing in» the
gift of God's own
love.
-LSB-... this] ought not be surprising — except to those who carry a burden
of false assumptions about
love, celibacy, and their relationship...
As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity for love as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life in service to other
As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity for
love as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life in service to other
as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his
love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the
gift of his life in service to others.
When parents exercise their «unrenounceable authority» 11
as a service to the well - being
of their children, the children's
gifts of love, respect and obedience become their specific contribution to the building up
of both Church and society.12
His extraordinary
gifts as poet — and these are the most salient aspects
of what he has left behind — enable him to reach everyone who
loves to watch or hear language do everything it can do.
Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting
of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly
as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness
of God means being created to offer others the
gift of ourselves.
* know the
love of God...... to be unrelenting and unlimited;... makes no exceptions and has no qualifications;... to be the constant inviting presence
of God; and... to be the unconditional acceptance by God
of me in my entirety
as a
gift.
When creatures who are
gifted as the image and likeness
of God misuse
love, corrupting what God made good, then the
love of God goes to them to heal them.
Sex in the Plan
of Creation Holloway, in keeping with the Scotist vision
of the Incarnation promoted by this magazine, argues not simply that the coming
of Christ was part
of the plan
of creation but that the division
of the sexes was planned
as the means by which the Incarnation would be possible: «God did not fashion sex «for
loving» but that the Incarnation might be the
gift of creation from the potential
of its own resources for the enfleshing
of God».
Husbands and wives are made to freely offer themselves
as gifts to one another in friendship, and to share in the life - giving
love of God.
The special logic
of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages
of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things
of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality
of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity
of flesh and form, recognizes all
of creation
as a purely gratuitous
gift of a God
of infinite
love, and is able to rejoice in the levity
of a world created and redeemed purely out
of God's «pleasure.»
I believe sexuality is a
gift and a grace that is given to us by God, and it can produce some
of the most radically beautiful and
loving acts
as well
as some
of the most horrible and hateful.
For man
as spirit - ordered - to - time, time becomes a necessity for placing self in a state
of gift in return
of God's
love.
I know that the message
of enemy -
love strikes those who are suffering
as complete foolishness, but to those who have forgiven, it is a
gift of liberation and life.
It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation
of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated»
love for us
as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's
gift of Himself.»
As Christians, I don't know if I'd call it a «responsibility» or «job», but it's our opportunity to have received such an amazing
gift and out
of our
love for our creator, we cherish, admire, and protect it, and glorify Him by doing so.
«Christian freedom is not,
as St Paul says, a
gift to be used
as «an opportunity for self - indulgence» (Galatians 5:13) but the freedom to give ourselves in
loving service... it has absolutely nothing to do with a truncated notion
of a happiness that is defined — at least in America — in terms
of consumer choice.»
The second thesis
of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values
of society and the family,
as Christians have tended to assume, have,
as a part
of God's creative plan, special
gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development
of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role
of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to
Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.
Your sins are already forgiven, no one goes to Hell because they did not ask for forgiveness, a person goes to Hell because when they have passed the age
of innocence, and have come to the Knowledge
of the Gospel, or they have learned that Jesus died for their sins, and that He gives us salvation freely because He
loves us more than we
love ourselves, and we have to make a choice to accept or reject this free
gift, if that individual accepts Jesus
as their Savior, then they go to Heaven, and if that individual rejects Jesus, then they go to Hell.
mercy and forgivness and
Love is the greatis
gift of all.just
as he died for our sin, he lifts us up and and gives us peace So that we can forgive one and other, and this is a wonderfull example how god frees our soul from burdens too hard to bare GOD BLESS YOU ALL
So choosing Jesus Christ
as you Lord and Savior is NOT A RELIGIOUS THING... it is a matter
of believing and faith and excepting HIS
gift and HIS
LOVE... that is it... it is no more complex than that.
Is there anything wrong with finding yourself
as the recipient
of the free
gift of walking in the God kind
of love, where you see God
loving through you, and manifesting His fruit instead
of the fruit
of the devil?
It is noteworthy that while Paul's reflection upon the saving facts
of the death and resurrection
of Christ leads him to the
love of God
as the supreme principle exhibited in these facts, it is his reflection upon the Spirit and the charismata or
gifts of the Spirit in the Church that leads him to
love or charity
as at once the greatest
of all charismata --» the
love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given to us» (Rom.
That's usually not the reality, but marriage does bring with it the
gift of pure, God - sanctioned intimacy and vulnerability
as we seek to
love our spouse well.
As an American Jew, I enjoy all holidays... Jewish and Christian... I
love to see the happiness
of children at Christmas time and their anticipation
of gifts... the joy
of children at Chanukah with the prospect
of getting
gifts every day for 8 days... it's innocent... joyful... and absent
of malice.
We shall propose that when our consciousness is shaped by faith in the divine promise,
as well
as by a trust in the
gift of God's self - limiting
love, we will be able to see in the cosmos a depth and breadth otherwise obscured.
An understanding
of revelation
as the
gift of an ever - more - inclusive future rooted in the kenotic
love of God can help transform the Church's self - understanding in a way that would make it more closely related to the needs
of our contemporary world.
However irreproachably I lived
as a monk, I felt myself in the presence
of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not
love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice
of God
as that by which the just man lives by the
gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6
It is
as if someone offered us, with his left hand, the
gift of love; and then, with his right hand, made a fist at us and said, «If you won't accept
love, I'll knock you down».
To
love God with your mind means to use your mind — that marvelous, mysterious, creative
gift of God —
as fully and productively
as possible, throughout your life.
And when your standing before God is stripped
of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom
of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the
love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of pla
love of Christ
as the free and wild and generous
gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that
Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of pla
Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary
of places.
In such a framework, we can have «Christ without myth,» where he is understood
as «the final reality
of God's
love that confronts us
as sovereign
gift and demand in all the events
of our existence.»