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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; forgiveness</title>
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		<title>the healing power of forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/15/the-healing-power-of-forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Roberts is the widow of the man who entered the Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, thirteen days ago, taking ten young girls hostage and eventually killing five before taking his own life. On Friday, she released an open letter to the Amish community through her pastor. The text of her letter follows &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>living witnesses &#8230; witnesses to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s news outlets &#8230; By Michael Rubinkam: In Amish village, forgiveness lives Just about anywhere, a deadly school shooting would have brought demands for tighter gun laws and better security, and the victims&#8217; loved ones would have lashed out at the gunman&#8217;s family or threatened to sue. But after the slayings of five children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fighting terror &#8230; a different way</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/20/fighting-terror-a-different-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I realize now how precious life is,&#8221; said Anthony Aversano, whose father, Louis, was killed in the World Trade Center. &#8220;How I fight the terror in me today is to live my life well.&#8221; That quote comes from a Los Angeles Times account of the witnesses called yesterday by the defense team for Zacarias Moussaoui. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>transforming memory</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/10/20/transforming-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are a product of our memories &#8230; I heard someone make that comment a few days ago. It&#8217;s true. We do not encounter the present moment with a &#8220;clean slate,&#8221; but with the blessing and the burden of our memories. Our memories shape the ways we interpret and react to the situations we encounter. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>good people</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/06/28/good-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been privileged to know some good people in my lifetime: people who fight to defend other people&#8217;s rights people who say &#8220;I forgive you&#8221; &#8230; and mean it people who seem never to tire of serving friends and strangers people who believe in a project and support it wholeheartedly &#8230; and don&#8217;t care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>as we forgive our debtors</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/06/14/as-we-forgive-our-debtors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear this week of the commitment of the G8 nations to forgive some $40 billion worth of debt of the eighteen poorest nations in the world.]]></description>
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