Sentences with phrase «of opening a gift»

We all enjoy the mystery and intrigue of opening a gift with our name on the tag.

and enjoys the idea of opening gifts (though it doesn't matter if it's hers or mine, as I discovered during my birthday a couple of weeks ago!)

2) Have the older child feel important — give them jobs, let them be involved in the process of opening gifts.

The look of surprise and pure glee of opening gifts from my family members and friends on the day of Christmas brings enjoyment to me each year.

«Doronophobia is an irrational fear of opening gifts.

Not exact matches

When the holidays come around, there's no better way to make your coffee addict wake up and open presents than with a bunch of coffee - inspired gifts.

I like this definition of humility: It's an ability to recognize your talents and gifts accurately and then willingly stoop to a lower level and become curious, open, and willing to accept instruction without clinging to your pride.

For example, when I interviewed the head of a novelty gift company that relies almost entirely on open innovation, he told me very explicitly what they were looking for — and more importantly what they weren't.

Donors can open accounts at many brokerage firms or large foundations, and then make gifts of cash, marketable securities, and even hard - to - value assets.

«I loved to get them a lot of things to put under the tree at Christmas, because it was just so much darn fun to watch them when they were little, opening the gifts and enjoying them,» said Davis, who lives in Mesa, Ariz..

Toys «R» Us Canada's vice-president of marketing and store planning Clint Gaudry says its 82 Canadian stores will remain open for business and the company will continue to honour its existing customer policies and baby registry, gift card and loyalty point programs.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of US philanthropists who opened their cheque books to make big donations in 2013, with his gift of almost $ 1 billion to a Silicon Valley charity.

Within 24 hours of someone accepting a job offer, Achievers sends a gift (these days, it's a fruit basket) to make the employee feel welcome and to open up a dialogue.

Gyft recently broke open the number of places you can spend Bitcoin by offering a host of merchant gift cards for Bitcoin.

The provincial government matched the gift, and by the time of the official opening, more than 130 individuals and corporations had also contributed to the future of the School and the building.

Some of these gift links will open on different sites, but this window will stay open so you can easily return to it to get the next gift.

If you're eligible, you could receive a «gift» (grant) from the state of up to 3 percent of your opening mortgage balance.

Your legacy gift to the Fraser Institute Foundation will help us educate future generations about public policies that support free and open markets, individual choice, and personal responsibility, for the long - lasting prosperity of all Canadians.

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.

Again, from Scruton: «[A] vow is a self - dedication, a gift of oneself» — open - ended in its commitment to a shared destiny between parties.

«But the entire concept of trading gifts, of decking an evergreen tree with tinsel of silver and gold and singing songs and roasting chestnuts on an open fire, that's all taken, 100 % of it.

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

From a theological standpoint, it is the pervasive sense of gift which permeates both grief and guilt and opens the triad of grief, guilt, gift to a glimpse of the womb - love of God.

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.

Just Open the Door is a personal yes - you - can guide to offering the life - changing gift of invitation.

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 influencOf 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 influencof 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 influencof the person as «gift» whichwill have the most lasting influence.

What if you had simple ways to overcome those obstacles and lean into the gift of opening your door?

«For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.»

They demand that every gift purchased, every mall opened late, every credit card maxed out must be done so in Jesus» name... or else Christ will be taken out of Christmas.

In these times of stress - in a society pressured on all sides, moving toward its breaking point - play can purify our sensibility, make us open again to the gifts of God's goodness which surround us.

Play can open us to the gifts of God's goodness.

He is ever beyond our natural understanding, but knowledge of him is open to all through the gifts of faith, hope and love.

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.

It was the beginning of the Olympic Games, so I was still basking in the idealistic glow of the opening ceremonies, impressed by the commitment and talent of the most gifted competitors in the world, and awed by the staggering feats of athleticism that appeared on my TV screen each night.

Indeed, perhaps we have found in the season's mood of anticipation the first, even the best, gift of Christmas, the one we get to open early.

Many of Bass's suggested activities for «opening the gift of time» are embedded within the shared activities of communities, not all of them Christian.

«God makes a gift of revelation, not to the erudite theologians but to the uncouth, to the children, to those who, with filial spirit, are able to say Abba opens the Kingdom» (Jeremias, 1974:142).

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

Everyone is given the same gift, some of us have just opened it up....

«You are my Son» was addressed to the king of Israel, prototype of the Messiah.14 «My beloved on whom my favor rests» is the Servant of the Lord in the prophecy of Isaiah.15 There the Servant is equipped for his task by the gift of the Spirit, which is here symbolized by the open heavens and the descent of the dove.

The New Calvinism seeks to become less formal, and more open to the use of spiritual gifts.

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.

We give water, McDonald's gift cards for $ 5 each (a great place to go in the early morning cold for a cup of coffee), sleeping bags, socks, easy to open / no preparation required food, and small SUNSCREEN packets!

All this is absurd, but contracepting couples contradict their own vows in a similar way when they refuse to be open to the gift of life.