Sentences with phrase «seen as gifts to»

Ultimately, I hope that he sees it as the gift to him that I mean it to be.

«She is so wonderful and London hasn't had an exhibition of her work in so long, I see it as a gift to the city.»

Not exact matches

This was a type of psychological experiment to see if people as a group could be tricked into ascribing value to something created from nothing, if they were given it as a gift.

Great leaders, on the other hand, value truth and honesty and see feedback as a gift to improve upon their leadership so they can serve others and their mission better.

These exceptional personalized gifts, sent to only a few dozen fans, were seen by the rest of her fan base as an incredible act of kindness.

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.

The good news is Lawless saw the synchronicities such as allowing partners to bring gifts to the mix.

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If you're «variable,» then you're going to see your failure as an opportunity — as a gift to unwrap and use for success.

This is especially true when the product will be a gift; no one wants to be seen as second class.

As I've explained numerous times before, it's considered auspicious to give gifts of gold bullion and jewelry during the Hindu Festival of Lights, and in years past we've seen some price appreciation in the days and weeks leading up to the celebration.

But it's not a gift that can be called upon on command, like magic, as a skeptic may expect to see in order to be convinced.

See how Judas dealt with Jesus his years on earth — read the Poem of the Man God — a journey presented to us as a great gift but not accepted.

«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.

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.

We could see your gifts and callings as a blessing to be used in community instead of as an isolating boundary of «The Holy and The Rest of Us.»

Moreover, God, who alone sees all things and what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and gives gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a believer.

We have tried to rethink our views of sexuality on the basis of seeing it as a gift of God, which we are called to use responsibly.

I see the salvation process as part coming to an awareness of what you already are, created in the image of God or what some may call being born of the Spirit and given the gift of faith.

That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and human beings with the creative capacity to brew up something wonderful.

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.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

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.

What could be a kinder gift to our children than teaching them to see the world as truthfully as we do?

Oh the gift to see ourselves as others see us.

They fail to see that self - commitment can be received only as a gift from God.

We could see their gifts and callings as a blessing to be used in community instead of as an isolating boundary of «The Holy and The Rest of Us.»

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.

When people look at me and see a man with a variety of gifts, talents, abilities, interests and hobbies (let's say), I reject it immediately when they look at me as a resource, as a potential, as a pool for something greater, as a means to some end.

But there are also people who want to fit in, but because we see this first connection as a means to an end, we cut them off from exploring other gifts, we institutionalize the process.

I will have to do some more thinking though to see if I see others as a commodity to be «used» rather than as people with gifts to be utilized / used.

It is to see God's gift of the creation as not only a word about the earth «in the beginning,» but also the affirmation that God is present now through the spirit, overcoming brokenness among people and their habitation.

Bass asks us to see time in a new way, not as something that controls us, but as God's first gift, as the medium of God's presence and activity and as the place of sabbath.

Sounds to me like Bill should have stayed in the closet... anyone so blinded as not to be able to see the ARTIST the lord was is just simply BLIND... Children's are GOD»S gift to us and should not be lead astray from the Truth..

I didn't set out to do so, but my faith allowed me to see it as a gift and follow it through to completion.

rather, i would say that his honesty in making the decision to not participate in sexual (see my wording here is not orientation specific) activity could be considered a gift, and a very strong witness, just as any unmarried heterosexual.

We have questioned how a book as cynical and pessimistic as Ecclesiastes could have found its way into the canon, failing to see the text's central affirmation of our work and play as gifts from God to be enjoyed.

As an American Jew, I enjoy all holidays... Jewish and Christian... I love to see the happiness of children at Christmas time and their anticipation of gifts... the joy of children at Chanukah with the prospect of getting gifts every day for 8 days... it's innocent... joyful... and absent of malice.

We shall propose that when our consciousness is shaped by faith in the divine promise, as well as by a trust in the gift of God's self - limiting love, we will be able to see in the cosmos a depth and breadth otherwise obscured.

Now however I see it as using the wonderful gift of humor to struggle with one of the more challenging questions of the Christian faith.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Man can hear and respond to the signals by coming to see the world as a gift, and God as its loving Giver.

Girard, however, fails to see the richness, multivalency, and ambiguity inherent in the language of sacrifice in Jewish and Christian thought; he fails to grasp, in particular, the conversion theology effects of the story of wrath into the story of mercy, or how it replaces the myth of sacrifice as economy with the narrative of sacrifice as a ceaseless outpouring of gift and restoration in an infinite motion exceeding every economy»

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

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The faithful will see the future and hence the solution to the problem of bread as God's gift to a faithful people.

God's justifying righteousness has come to be seen not only as a divine gift (Rom.

And I couldn't do so without devaluing what she saw as her spiritual gift (and she didn't seem to think she had any others), which in turn devalues her.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

One thing makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see parent fools their children by lying to them that an old dude with the name of Santa will come and get you gifts or anything you wish for... and they put things under the tree and make these poor children know that these are from Santa... and its being done generation after generation... parents now were victimized when they were child by their parents and they are repeating the same with their children and it is now in a loop and no one seems to be wanting to get out of the loop which is plain lie and very clear... but these poor children has nothing to do as they under the custody of these parents...