Sentences with phrase «life as a gift to»

Learning to keep life simple and see life as a gift to be given.

Don't let me discourage you from self - publishing a chronicle of your life as a gift to your descendants.)

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As a recovering interruption addict myself, I promise you that when you change these behaviors and find yourself blessed with the precious gift of time that used to be stolen by old behaviors, your work and personal life will prosper.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

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

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.

If you have to live somewhere, you might as well live in a nice place and take advantage of government gifts.

Consists of (i) 566,920 shares held of record by the Richard Costolo 2001 Living Trust dated February 8, 2001, for which Mr. Costolo serves as trustee, and the Lorin Costolo 2001 Living Trust dated February 8, 2001, for which Mr. Costolo's spouse serves as trustee, (ii) 6,749,688 shares issuable pursuant to outstanding stock options held by Mr. Costolo which are exercisable within 60 days of August 31, 2013 and (iii) 273,000 shares issuable pursuant to outstanding stock options held by the Lorin Costolo 2012 Gift Trust, for which The Northern Trust Company serves as trustee, which are exercisable within 60 days of August 31, 2013.

There are other types of legacy gifts you may wish to consider, such as a charitable remainder trust, a gift of life insurance, or a gift of retirement plan assets.

DBA has served as an unpaid board member for the International Life Sciences Institute of North America and has received payment for board membership from Kraft Foods and consulting fees, grants, and / or unrestricted gifts to his university from Kraft Foods, Kellogg Company, PepsiCo, Jason Pharmaceuticals, and McNeil Nutritionals.

Between my job and passive income, I should surpass 300k / yr within the next 6 months, I'm able to live in a house nice enough to be a forever home with a 1,400 / month mortgage, do things like surprise my dad with a Mazda mita (his dream car) as a retirement gift, etc..

Whether one dollar or one thousand, your gift is helping LLS's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's Disease, and myeloma as well as improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Using life insurance as a charitable giving tool allows you to make a generous gift at relatively modest cost.

There are two ways to gift life insurance: You may name the Fraser Institute Foundation as either the owner, or as the beneficiary, of a policy.

His advice to life insurance advisors who are talking with clients about gifting strategies during this two - year period is to «keep in mind that making big gifts is a long - term proposition for clients,» as is estate planning.

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

The God - given gifts of science and technology should be used only as a means to respect and promote communities, life and human dignity.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

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.

That being a spiritual death or being outcasted from God whereas overcoming that spiritual death and returning to God is the gift of «eternal life» as opposed to immortality.

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

The Holy Father will be remembered for his enduring commitment to the compatibility and complementarity of faith and reason as we make our way through life, blessed with both the gift of our intellect and a capability to hear also the revelation of God.

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.

«We don't see marriage as an inequality to be righted but as a unique gift with the biological potential to create new life and social good for everyone.

Freedom lies not in creating our lives, but in learning to recognize our lives as a gift.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

If Mary's baby was, as Many have theorized, the product of an attack bt a Roman soldier I think If the pro-lifers spin it right the family could be a useful example to use for living with this «gift from god» Stats in the US show such assaults unfortunately generally lead to divorce, but if we are to believe the history, Joseph was very supportive.

As it is, God is like the awesome boyfriend living in another town, that nobody has ever seen, but is claimed to have given wonderful gifts like jewelry and flowers that the lady in question could easily have bought for herself.

No longer then is the bearing and rearing of children thought of as a task we should take up or as a return we make for the gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.

When this sentiment is said out loud in groups of Christians, it's usually assumed to be: A) highly sarcastic (as people bemoan their romantic lives and their curse of this «gift» from God); B) highly ironic (as people are obsessively on the lookout for their future spouse);.

God chose the gift of freedom for us and we're responsible for the consequences of our choices, just as those sick parents will have to live with and suffer from their horrible decisions.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

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

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.

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.

Europe could of course bequeath its gifts to a new emerging culture — following the example set by previous cultures during their decline — but as a historical subject its life cycle had effectively ended.

-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 otherAs 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 otheras 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.

[4] «cf. Meilaender, Gilbert, The Giving and Taking of Organs, First Things, March 2008, where he emphasises that humans are called to live their bodily life as a personal gift to others and that «presumed consent... does go a long way toward treating persons as handy repositories of interchangeable parts to others.»

We're not trying to wrestle paltry gifts from a reluctant deity, counting coins in the counting house, viewing our lives as a sheet of checks and balances.

That's why God's grace is extended to everyone, as are His abundant gifts — so that life may truly become more than the empty, dark thing we so easily make it.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

but eternal live is as secure as God is gracious to grant one his spirit as a GIFT the moment she / he believes.

Ann ensures that each Grace Case offers you not only fair - trade, artisan - crafted heirlooms that changes the worlds for so many of our sisters, but Ann also offers creative ideas and resources of how to use these heirlooms to continue to give grace forward in your own life, to your people, and your community — so you, as a GenEsther, get to be the gift, for such a time as now.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damneTo the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damneto all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damneto hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

In the midst of the Church's bearing the everyday burdens of man, she discovers that the question of life addresses them in such a fashion that they themselves can ask about the meaning of life; to which query can be directed the witness that the meaning of life is to receive life as a gift from God.

The crux of the matter reduces down from halls of rationalism to be the person of Christ by means of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth of the believing saint, revealing himself as The Gift of eternal life.

Indeed, the Pentecostal understanding of spiritual gifts encourages people to see the meaning of their lives as launching outside of the church to make their own, distinctive contribution.