What if the best recipe for creating successful schools was developing relaxed, safe, and
joyful ones?
But some part of us wonders if
the joyful ones are just a bit... fake.
The Catholic vision of marriage and the family is, indeed,
a joyful one.
This is our tradition and
a joyful one whether rich or poor.
Not always a particularly comfortable way, although often a surprisingly
joyful one: Gonxha Bojaxhiu and Karol Wojtyla were both often seen smiling, laughing, and joyful.
The life to which Jesus calls us is an abundant one,
a joyful one, and a just one.
But we are now much more mindful and intentional about making the learning process
a joyful one, so that students develop an intrinsic desire for lifelong learning.
I want to commend Likisha Pearmon - Jones for making my second experience with Mercedes Benz of Owings Mills
a joyful one!
I arrived a cynic and left a skeptic, and
a joyful one at that.
Regardless of the base chosen, the process of painting and collaging different elements is
a joyful one.
She says, «I truly enjoy what I do and being able to make your home buying and selling experience
a joyful one is extremely important to me.»
She says, «I truly enjoy what I do and being able to make your home buying and selling experience
a joyful one is extre... Read More
Not exact matches
Natural sleep should be
one - third of our lives so that the remaining two - thirds are
joyful.
That's especially true during the holidays, when it should come as no surprise that grandparents often want just
one thing: to see their grandchildren's
joyful faces on Christmas morning.
There's a lot of
joyful buzz in the air as marketers squeeze brand messages into the holiday season, or into
one of the latest items in the Trump news cycle (see Tweet of the week, below).
Somehow both old as the hills and
joyful as the sun, his greatest lie is the
one he seems (almost) to believe: «My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly.»
He finally found himself in a
joyful and peaceful place where all religions are quieted, where all attachments are consummated, where all worship ceases, where all desire ends, where prayer becomes silent, where the separate soul is purified by death, where true freedom emerges, where life in love is the air that is breathed, and where all is
One.
After the
joyful testimony of the angels and shepherds at the birth of Jesus, it is Simeon and Anna who recognize him as the promised
one.
«Shalom,» he says, showing a familiar face, holding up a wounded hand, and then he waits for the truth to sink in, for the disciples to let out their breath in
one joyful gasp, for them to fall on him weeping, shouting, cheering.
On the
one hand, we have deleted the somber aspects of God, thereby ignoring the tart warning by that relentless opponent of liberal theology, J. Gresham Machen, that «religion can not be made
joyful simply by looking on the bright side of God.»
Peter's
joyful reaction to the unexpected faith of Cornelius best describes my reaction to what Scripture says about the unevangelized: «I most certainly understand now that God is not
one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.»
Indeed, with the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection more intensely and vividly present to him,
one imagines at these times than at others, it is not abstinence from sexual communion, but rather (
one would suggest) the fullest, most
joyful, most grateful expression of it that becomes at such times his just response to the costly redeeming love of God.
Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in
one act of
joyful recognition and adoration.
They gathered in
one another's homes for fellowship meals, for the hearing of the Gospel, for the prayers and
joyful songs in which they expressed their praise and gratitude to God for the newly received faith and hope.
Yet
one character, Uncle Andrew, simply would not feel welcomed or
joyful in Narnia's flourishing, then - peaceful world.
At
one point in the movie they travel from their village which is alive with
joyful laughter, a beautiful simplicity and a profound generosity.
Maybe they ask us to listen to a voice that provides an opening to freedom by providing a perspective other than our own, enunciated by the voice of the
one who creates this world at every moment and knows where it is going, who calls prophets to speak and knows the purpose of their words, who sows the seed of the word with
joyful abandon, secure in the knowledge of the harvest.
But
one senses a confident,
joyful purpose in educational missions that are genuinely supernatural in their ambition.
Within human consciousness there is always a sense of the goodness of
one's own existence (pace original sin) which is the basis of the sense of what rightly belongs to us, what makes us truly happy, what brings our existence to
joyful fulfilment.
Her example is a testament that it's God who decides the period of expectation — when the time comes and when it may end — but we are the
ones who make the waiting
joyful, by knowing that whatever is to come, comes from God and it is good.
The New Testament takes it a couple of steps further giving us a commandvitation (a word I coined to try to communicate that all God's commands are invitations to life for those who are thirsty) to speak the Psalms to
one another and sing them in our hearts to the Lord... and sing them when we are
joyful (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16 and James 5:13).
In my Luther the familiar theological topics make an appearance: justification by grace through faith (which is linked with
one of his favorite images, that of a «
joyful exchange» of identities with Christ); the forgiveness of sins; the authority of the Word; the human as «sinner and at the same time justified.»
Responding actively to both the tragic and the
joyful aspects of life frees
one from drifting and permits
one to swim in the direction
one chooses, in spite of the turbulence and the current.
From a different perspective,
one may perceive them as
joyful and liberating.
The man's response is
one of
joyful recognition, after too many days in the dull company of animals: «This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh!»
Behold from faith thus flow forth love and joy in the Lord, and from love a
joyful, willing, and free mind that serves
one's neighbour and takes no account of gratitude or ingratitude, or praise or blame, of gain or loss...
Yet it is a
joyful asceticism, and here we come upon
one of the distinctive marks of the Franciscan type, its happy and lyric quality.
In Acts we are told that because of the gospel, we are the
ones whose hearts should be glad, whose words should be
joyful and whose lives should be full of hope.
One may feel surprised, satisfied,
joyful, happy, proud, even self - congratulatory, but «self - thankful» is, plainly, inconsistent.
Ascetic, a man of prayer, remembered as always
joyful, he might have remained
one of the obscure but worthy clergy honored in his lifetime by a small circle of intimates but quickly forgotten.
Only God abides forever, and we belong to God in all circumstances — not only the
joyful but also the mundane and excruciating
ones.
We are following Jesus as best as we know how, and
one day, we come across a truth, or read an idea in a book, or discover something amazing about Scripture, or learn a key to defeating a certain sin in our life, or uncover a way to become more
joyful, or find some tips for having a better marriage and family life, or whatever.
And somehow it wends its way into my most
joyful moments, my quiet and contemplative
ones, my questions and my wonderings, my anger and my sadness.
The name Mud Hen Bars should make you jump up and down and scream with
joyful anticipation of enjoying
one of the most excellent cookie bars you will ever eat.
Marta Sanso, senior brand manager for
Joyful Candy at Mondelēz International, says, «Recent additions to the UK's number
one candy bag range including Tangy, Tropical and Merry Mix candy bags have brought more shoppers into the market.
I felt PROUD to be
one of your long - time readers, a fan of so many of your recipes, and now the
joyful owner of the smitten kitchen cookbook.
Doing something that
joyful and unexpected was a different side of Roy,
one that we got to see a lot more of in his retirement.
Nothing about the scoreline particularly suggests that the game was
one of the great modern international matches, an open and
joyful affair, two hours of punch and counter-punch that provoked ITV's commentator, Clive Tyldesley, to praise both teams for their «generosity of spirit».
In addition from his
joyful flicks and
one - twos, his crossing is a huge improvement over those of the Swiss international.
Bedtime rituals are
one of the most time consuming parts of parenting, but also
one of the most
joyful — if you can just get into the right headspace.