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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; beauty</title>
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		<title>seeing gray</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/09/27/seeing-gray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Sojouorners magazine (In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption?), Nancy Hastings Sehested, a Baptist minister and prison chaplain, describes a North Carolina maximum-security prison this way: Colorful flowers mark the path to the gatehouse. Then the stripping away begins in earnest. It is a gray day every day in this prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>beauty, and life, take time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really liked today&#8217;s entry at inward/outward &#8230; so I am taking the liberty of reprinting it here for you! By Macrina Wiederkehr Life unfolds a petal at a time slowly. The beauty of the process is crippled when I try to hurry growth. Life has its inner rhythm which must be respected. It cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>love and war</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/02/25/love-and-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were visited by a major winter storm in Iowa this weekend, and our Saturday and Sunday plans (which were many!) were cancelled. We enjoyed some good down time, a fire in the fireplace, and we watched two movies, two among the list of movies we have been wanting to preview. The two movies could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the face in the mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/19/the-face-in-the-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should review the short documentary film made by a New York City high school student: A Girl Like Me. A September 19 editorial by Leonard Pitts led me to the site. As he writes, Be warned: if you have a heart, the new doll test will break it. Our culture does a very poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a view through the trees</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/02/a-view-through-the-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like this photograph. It is different from most of my other Monhegan photos &#8212; no stunning cliffs rising from the sea, no waves exploding on the rocks guarding the shoreline, no colorful lilies or picturesque lighthouses or interesting people &#8212; just this view through the trees. Is it a photograph of the sea or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a beautiful place, a beautiful moment</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/07/19/a-beautiful-place-a-beautiful-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, on a beach on the shores of Lake Huron, my son was married. What an extraordinary setting for a wedding! And what a privilege to perform the ceremony &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>making beauty</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/01/14/making-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally published Saturday, December 31, 2005) I have been doing a bit of ranting lately &#8230; about the horrors of the death penalty, about the scandal of an administration that is reluctant to expressly disavow torture, about the shortsighted greed that would rather despoil an untouched wilderness than spend the time and money to develop [...]]]></description>
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