Sentences with phrase «as opening gifts»

For some, overindulgence is as much of a holiday tradition as opening gifts.

Rob could barely contain himself as I opened the gift.

My favorite tradition is getting together with my family on Christmas Eve to eat and then watch my daughters excitement as they open gifts.

I think my favorite part about birthdays / birthday presents is seeing their reaction as they open gifts.

As he opened the gifts he became irritated, and tried to pick a fight.

I love seeing the wonder in my 7 yr olds eyes as we open gift, bundle up to go to midnight services and finally set out cookies and carrots before going to bed.

Not exact matches

When tax season opens, they eagerly anticipate a big refund as if it were a gift from some benevolent uncle (that is, Uncle Sam).

Greeting each day as a gift helps reframe priorities and opens us up to possibilities we never would have considered in our «former lives.»

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Giving lies in our very nature, certain in our hearts that none but the gift passed from an open hand will multiply as those we help better themselves, those they love and, at length, the country they call home.

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Others use their day jobs to fund projects such as car washes, storage units, or opening a gift store.

These airtime top - up payments can also be made as gifts to other Vodi users, opening up a convenient way for families and friends in different countries to transfer credit back and forth.

It is therefore no surprise that the Gianna Center, where a woman's fertility is recognized as a gift and not a curse» something that indeed even that allows her, with her spouse, to collaborate with their Creator in the generation of life» opened with a waiting list of over 150 patients.

When a man and woman unite in the Sacrament of Matrimony, they have the gift of possibly bringing life to the world as long as they remain open to this covenant with God.

Of the many contributions of this past pontificate, perhaps it was John Paul's opening up and developing the Second Vatican Council's understanding of the person as «gift» whichwill have the most lasting influence.

It is as if salvation is something that kicks in after death, like a gift that says «don't open until eternity» on the tag.

Hauerwas helped him to see children as a gift from God, and to see that a properly Christian question is how we can be open to receive the gifts of life God might give.

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

But once (within marriage) generosity has been fulfilled in a particular couple (which only they can determine in conscience), need «each and every act of sexual intercourse» be open to the gift of children without destroying the symbolism of the conjugal act as complete self - gift to each other?

When morning finally arrives, the first hundred in line who suffered through the weather, the cold, and the line jumpers amongst themselves are all excited as the manager of the store opens the door and then address the crowd with simply wonderful news: They dug into their profits and managed to come up with enough of the free gift not only for everyone in line, not just the first 100, but everyone who wants to come in for the entire duration of the sale.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

The gift of forgiveness brings new life and hope as it opens up the individual to God's future, but at the same time forgiveness brings with it the sorrow of confession and repentance.

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

Thus in the marital act, spouses freely choose to instantiate their communion of persons in one flesh open to the gift of life in and through an act in which their bodily activity is as much the constitutive subject of what they are doing asis their act of choice.

So faithful service means practices that look like worship — those that gather people and form them as one body, that reconcile and open lives to repentance and forgiveness, that proclaim truth and reveal God's story, that embrace need and unleash gifts, that express thanks and are open to the Holy Spirit, that share food and wash feet.

I only ask The Lord Almighty to open your heart as you have lot of potential gifts the you can help other human...

God himself negated and reversed his own transcendence in the Incarnation, and the Christian is called to will the death of God as a way of opening himself to the gift or «Body» of God in Christ.

More and more these days, my prayers are a resting with open hands, I receive these hours ahead as a gift, I receive what you have to give me, I am open, let's sit down together here in the quiet.

We may say then that our freedom too is a gift of revelation in that the latter opens the future to us as a realm of infinite trustworthiness.

Seeing clearly is a divine gift, but sometimes, as in the story of Jesus» opening the eyes of a blind human being in two stages, the sight that is gained is imperfect, and a second remedial touch is necessary (Mark 8:22 — 26).

Can we enlarge on the insights of artists such as Gerlach, whose creative gifts depend on the process of letting - go or opening, to receive imaginative insights from a Spirit greater than ourselves?

In this context, most Christians continue to hold up as an ideal for all who can reach it, a faithful union of a woman and a man who love each other and are open to the gift and responsibility of children.

As Pastor Brandon prayed, I had my eyes half open as I bowed my head and I recognized the sandaled feet of a man who has a gift of prophecy as he approach our little circlAs Pastor Brandon prayed, I had my eyes half open as I bowed my head and I recognized the sandaled feet of a man who has a gift of prophecy as he approach our little circlas I bowed my head and I recognized the sandaled feet of a man who has a gift of prophecy as he approach our little circlas he approach our little circle.

No one has ever or will ever so completely open themselves to the gift of God's grace and love, as did she.

I believe that in light of the creativity and compassion that it takes to serve the world as Jesus would, the evangelical community will continue to grow more and more open to the diversity of gifts that women bring to the worldwide communion table, and that women of valor everywhere can truly «laugh at the days to come.»

For example, when people open up their homes to me, I try to give back a gift — as a writer, I'm often given freebies and I pass on books, tickets to an event, a bottle of wine that I know the hosts will like.

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

Although the religious question is primarily a question of life, of living or not living in the higher union which opens itself to us as a gift, yet the spiritual excitement in which the gift appears a real one will often fail to be aroused in an individual until certain particular intellectual beliefs or ideas which, as we say, come home to him, are touched.

As someone with multiple food allergies, it's a wonderful gift to open a cookbook and be able to make just about everything inside!

I planned to serve it for a dinner we were having with an old friend until I remembered his nut allergy, so I put it in the freezer and then brought it out on Christmas morning to munch on as «pre-breakfast» while we opened gifts.

And then, as if they weren't amped up enough off from their gift opening, we decided to add sugar to the mix.

A full traditional meal was served as we lit the menorah, opened gifts, and when the dinner dishes were done, I continued to prep for the next day's feast.

It's just as easy to make three cups of rice (or barley, or farro, or quinoa) as it is one, and it feels like a gift you've given yourself when you get home and open the fridge and realize you have something already prepared in there.

I have been gifted the Camino cookbook and it's fabulous, but since we opened the café, Tekoa, I find myself very nostalgic for The Joy of Cooking as well as the perfect molasses cookie in The Silver Palate that a school friend brought to my son's class party.

Ostersund - under Englishman Graham Potter - had not been able to get hold of the ball and when they did, they gifted Arsenal the best chance of the opening exchanges as goalkeeper Aly Keita passed out of his box to Papagiannopoulos.

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As a college student without cash for the holidays, I've been planning on buying second hand gifts or handmade crafts at open air markets.

Packing a yummy lunch fast makes me as happy as Children opening their gifts on christmas morning