Word: joyful
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...other sisters chuckle when Saglimbeni recounts her saucy retort. But many of their loved ones feel less jovial about the women's decision to take the veil. "For those who are called, there is a real falling in love. You are filled with a joy and desire to be with God," says Sister Mary Gabriel Devlin, 32, vocation director at Sisters of Life. "Their families are not experiencing this, so it can be hard for them to understand." The sense of alienation can be even greater when women choose an order that isolates them from their families and others...
...ground. Although we were thinking about having a launch party sometime this winter and it very well might be an Aleksey Vayner charity benefit gala. Chris called me...to tell me that a cease and desist had just arrived [from Aleksey]. I was literally jumping for joy. It’s just always cool to get a cease and desist—it’s every reporter’s dream. C: If he follows through on suing us we’re hoping it’ll be the next Martha Stewart. We’re sure Harvard...
...House veteran Curt Weldon fell to the square-jawed Admiral and Clinton administration official, Joe Sestak. Also in Pennsylvania, political newcomer Christopher Carney downed four-term incumbent Don Sherwood, who pleaded with voters to forgive his marital infidelity, apparently to no avail. In Ohio, the Democrat Zack Space pummeled Joy Padgett, the hand-picked replacement of Rep. Bob Ney, who resigned amid an investigation of his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...played the Toccata from Leon Boellmann’s Suite Gothique. Brooks displayed talent well beyond that of many of the upperclassmen organists during this difficult piece. Carson Cooman, Memorial Church’s research associate in music, continued with “In Your Presence is Fullness of Joy,” by Patricia Van Ness. The less intricate piece served as a fine interlude between Brooks’s intense performance and the two final pieces.Joy-Leilani Garbutt from the Graduate School of Education played the second to last piece, a Louis Vierne Impromptu. This was another highlight...
...Well, I do get joy out of it. It's not smooth sailing by any means, but I enjoy a great deal of it, otherwise I wouldn't do it. But I also know that if you're going to try and change things - change anything really - you'd better be prepared to find yourself in the headquarters of hell. That's just how it works. But with resistance comes growth. If you go to a gym and lift weights and it's easy then your muscles aren't going to grow. Your muscles grow because you're struggling against...