That audiences would understand the gift of another gender through her love of her beautiful son.
But it's hard to say this about the Hebrew Bible (or "Old Testament"), which was composed centuries earlier, at a time when human wisdom and insight were everywhere understood to be the gift of a god.
Read 'The Gift of Dyslexia'.
We understand that giving the gift of a book is for some the start of a family library.
Years passed before I understood the magnitude of that gift.
'He was a political animal in one sense, but he was an artist in the truest sense of the word; he had the gift and he understood the value of creative risk.
The intensity of the desire to have a child isn't understood by all, especially people who the gift of a child came so easily to.
Like any ambitious writer working in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he understood the peculiar burden and gift of laboring under the shadow of Jorge Luis Borges — the master who, according to a famous remark by an Argentine critic, is "bigger than Argentine literature".
"Felix's gift as an artist was that he understood the power of subtlety," he says.
And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not peptides, I am nothing.
