Word: gracing
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Fifteen minutes before the service starts, 100 middle schoolers are already squeezed into a basement rumpus room. The weekly worship for middle schoolers at Grace Chapel in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mass., is called the Edge, a fitting name for a gathering that appears to be on the brink of anarchy. In one corner girls pouring orange juice giggle contagiously as the juice spills on the table, carpet and doughnuts. In another corner a number of boys are exploring ways to injure themselves with folded metal chairs--like swinging them at one another. A soccer ball zips past...
Like many of her friends at the nondenominational Grace Chapel, Shea has a routine that includes morning, meal and bedtime prayer as well as daily "devos," or devotionals, a sort of scriptural homework. She says the regimen is paying off. "One thing I think God did do for me was to give me my own room [in the new house]," she says with a smile. "It's a bit of privacy God gave me to be alone more with him," she adds, "and get away from my sister...
...react less stoically and with more surface passion, New Yorkers rescued others from burning buildings, went back to work on 9/12 and spent two years digging through rubble. No act of terrorism could diminish our American spirit, nor should the world fail to recognize that we too have grace and dignity under pressure...
Although this theme has found its way into many a teen movie, Angarano, best known for playing Jack’s long-lost son on “Will and Grace,” has the charm and inflection to pull it off. The 17-year-old star (one thing Disney does consistently well is hire actual teens to play teens in its movies) plays the nice but sometimes clueless guy in a style reminiscent of a young, less cynical John Cusack...
...have several ideas to reform this language, but will no doubt find myself accused of linguistic arrogance. Therefore, in the interests of tolerance, I shall acquiesce to such staggering witlessness and bow out with grace. My Russian program expires—hopefully before I do—in 17 days...