Sentences with phrase «proverbial silver spoon»
By our human and natural parental instinct, we feel a need to coddle our children and hand them life on a silver platter, or feed them from the proverbial silver spoon.
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Some people kind of run away from the fact that they didn't grow up with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouths, but for me, if I ran away from that, I think I would be like a feather floating in the air with no sense of purpose, no sense of groundedness, with a whole lot of emptiness.»
There is a confidence — from those who have been delivered from drug addiction to those who grew up in the county with our proverbial silver spoons — that the present reality and its attendant despair will not always define our neighborhood, and that as we trust in Christ individually, that transformation radiates outwards in service and love to others.