His joyful personality was a gift to us all.
For adults, gratitude is often thought to involve feeling thankful or joyful for receiving a gift that was given to you voluntarily and intentionally by another.
It's healthy to be joyful and enjoy the sweets, the gift giving and the magical moments without judgment.
AK: Giving is a joyful experience and it can powerfully enrich both sides of the gift.
Giving--whether a smile, our time, a listening ear, food or material gifts--is profoundly joyful, both to the one who is receiving and the one who is giving.
The gifts of his keen intellect, joyful spirit, and priceless sense of humor will be with us always.
This meant that the laity "became joyful, elated, thinking: 'Now we will give gifts, we will work merit... ' " (Mahāvagga VIII, 1, 36).
Her goodness, her capacity for willing, even joyful sacrifice — the strength of her love — is a gift to match that possessed by her little brother, "watching something we don't see," his eyes "so full of light".
I'm sure she has enormous stress, but you never feel that stress from her, and she sees it as a really joyful thing that we've all be given this gift of a script.
It's a gift especially meaningful at this season, which, while joyful for many, has a reputation for raising the annual suicide quotient.
