Sentences with phrase «of gift exchange»

If you decide to buy for someone outside of the gift exchange, make sure you set up a special time away from the workplace to exchange gifts.

REGIFT, a group show curated by John Miller, includes 24 artists, all whom contribute work on the subject of gift exchange.

And to celebrate the Holidays, we will do the white elephant type of gift exchange... so bring a gift (please, no joke gifts) not to exceed $ 15 for you (and your guest)-- we draw numbers, you select something from...

This is my favorite part of the gift exchange.

In the case of The Inspired Room, a fellow blogger — Allison from Painted Summers, visited my Pinterest page and knew I'd enjoy it, so sent it to me as part of a gift exchange.

The concept of the gift exchange is for people to all stand / sit in a circle and pass their gifts to their left or right or across as the organizer reads the story containing these words.

Then, on the day of the gift exchange, you can all reveal who your Secret Santa was and have fun exchanging gifts with one another.

The best part of this gift exchange is that you get to build a stronger connection with other bloggers in the community.

Brewin puts it this way: «Churches must aspire to become centers of gift exchange in the broadest sense.

The logic of gift exchange is less about supply and demand than relationships and reciprocity.

I'm simplifying the holidays by doing a small handmade item as a mass gift this year instead of any gift exchanges.

It's also okay to opt out of gift exchanges with friends, acquaintances and colleagues, Jonat and Saha say.

The Sol LeWitt Private Collection retains evidence from most of these gifted exchanges.

Not exact matches

As a gift recipient, it's most likely because it saves the hassle of returning the ugly sweatshirt or tacky tie to a department store and waiting in long lines to make an exchange or return.

These gestures often vary in scale and cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.

Whether you're holiday shopping on a tight budget, or want to stock up on some good - but - cheap presents in case of a surprise gift exchange, you'd be surprised what you can get for under $ 10.

I have, in fact, participated in my fair share of shopping on the day, and I still have a few lingering items around the house that have thus far avoided the office White Elephant Gift Exchange.

The majority of business cards come with a points or miles - based rewards program that offer you a choice of redemption options — including travel, merchandise and gift cards — in exchange for your miles or points.

As long as the item (s) are returned with 45 days of the original order date, we are happy to do an exchange or issue a gift certificate.

A more subtle interpretation that fits with evidence on company performance, worker behavior, and pay is embodied in George Akerlof «s model of «gift exchange.»

An unbanked person can easily venture into the crypto sphere and take full advantage of the global economic system just by wandering into a corner store, buying a popular gift card, and then exchanging it on the Paxful platform.

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They are killed and lie dead in the streets for three and a half days while the wicked of the earth rejoice in the streets and exchange gifts in celebration of their deaths.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Most of what passes for Christmas traditions are in fact Pagan / Heathen, like the lighted and decorate tree, candles in the windows, wreath on the door, caroling from door to door, exchanging gifts, etc..

That is why from the beginning God entrusts woman to man, «to his eyes, to his consciousness, to his sensitivity, to his heart... [and] he must in a way, ensure the same process of the exchange of the gift, the mutual interpenetration of giving and receiving as a gift.

But there's a long, disheartening story of the journey from the cocoa bean to the candy box, one of the signature gifts exchanged during Valentine's Day.

The shagun is exchanged by the prospective families which usually consist of numerous gifts (Shagun) to the soon wed couples.

One of these is Hannukah, a version of our Christmas, and the other is Purim, kind of like our 4th of July, but they exchange gifts in both.

Exchanging white elephant gifts is one of my very favorite Christmas traditions.

As Deleuze formulates: «If exchange is the criterion of generality, theft and gift are these of repetition,» Deleuze (1994) 1.

So this Christmas season, revel in the exchanging of gifts, the decorated trees, the lights and glitter, the songs and poinsettia.

(5) How does God view the Christmas custom of giving gifts or, to be more precise, exchanging gifts?

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

Pierre Bourdieu returned repeatedly to the issue of the duality of gifts, being fascinated by how gifts are framed as expressions of relationships even as there is also a sublimated sense in which they are exchange of gift for counter-gift.

Perhaps our oldest references to how gifts are not just about relationships, but also carry a sublimated logic of exchange comes in Book VI of the Iliad, when Homer tells us about a gift exchange between two hereditary hospitality friends:

Yesterday marked the Jewish holiday of Purim, when Jews will gather together for festive meals and merriment, exchange gifts, and most centrally, assemble in synagogue for mirthful public readings of the Book of Esther — all in celebration of the salvation recounted therein.

The name of the Holy Spirit himself as «gift» is after all bestowed not only to denote a pure one - way gratuity, but also because the Spirit expresses the infinitely realized exchange between Father and Son.

My claim here is that asymmetrical reciprocity and non-identical repetition allow sufficiently for an element of freedom in gift exchange to distinguish it from contract.

But if, for example, at Christmas, we exchange gifts with a friend, although there is reciprocity involved, there is also asymmetry: what we receive in return may often surprise us, and whether it is equivalent will be a matter of fine judgment.

A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.

A gift to remain a gift must continuously alter, and this altering is essential to exchange; but at the same time, without the exchange of gratitude a gift is unrecognized and therefore obliterated in its effective actuality.

Looking back now, I see that Christmas in my family — like it is in lots of families — was really a cultural event focused on the exchange of gifts.

They should provide hanging spaces for artists, venues for music of all types, forums for discussions and debates, classes for expectant mothers... whatever gifts there are in the local community, the church should be the place where these gifts can be exchanged or shared.»

In true marital intercourse, something real has been exchanged, with a full gift and acceptance of conjugal masculinity and femininity.

They picked up the idea and continued it... SO in a way Santa lives on even today... So who is to say that Santa does not exist, when the spirit of Santa lives on in parents, and families and relatives, and friends... at least a little in all over the parents and familys, and friends, that exchange gifts on Christmas...

Those who read his work will experience ecumenical dialogue, in John Paul II's words, «not simply as an exchange of ideas,» but also as «an «exchange of gifts,»» indeed, as «a dialogue of love.»

One of the reasons that people suffer hives, crying jags, drinking bouts, and plain orneriness in the Christmas season is the rules: Everyone has got to celebrate, renew family ties, exchange gifts, and above all «be happy.»

I don't celebrate Easter and I enjoy Christmas as time off with my family and an exchange of gifts as is customary whether you believe in a God (Pick one there are thousands of made up Gods) or not.

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?