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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; humility</title>
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		<title>the president we want &#8230; in a word</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/13/the-president-we-want-in-a-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hosted a pre-caucus house party this evening at our home during which I asked our guests to express what it is they are looking for in a presidential candidate in one word. Their answers make quite a list! integrity compassion inspiration honesty justice humility diplomacy reconciler character change moral I do hope and pray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>emmanuel</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/05/emmanuel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From I Like Being Five Years Old, an entry by Debi Sanders last week on the inward/outward website: My friend Kim, who worked with Good Shepherd Ministries for the last ten years, just returned from a year in Haiti where her only â€œjobâ€ was to be with people and build friendships. The Haitians were in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mia or barry?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/08/mia-or-barry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barry_bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mia_hamm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On our way home to Iowa from our vacation in Maine, we stayed with a friend in Oneonta, New York, and visited the National Soccer Hall of Fame. On August 26, Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy will be honored there as 2007 inductees. Here&#8217;s hoping that Barry Bonds, the new &#8220;home run king&#8221; of baseball, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the desire to please you</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/06/the-desire-to-please-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prayer from Thomas Merton: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a politics &#8220;of the people&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/31/a-politics-of-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/31/a-politics-of-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They are out there &#8230; those ordinary citizens who have grown up in the midst of all the political and cultural battles, but who have found a way &#8212; in their own lives, at least &#8212; to make peace with their neighbors, and themselves. I imagine the white Southerner who growing up heard his dad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>happy new year</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/29/happy-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/29/happy-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Humility is the first step Acknowledging that you cannot Pull the right strings, making life dance to your beat, or Push the right buttons to guarantee the future You have in mind. Now is the time! the time to release pride and fear, the time to Embrace the God who embraces you, to Welcome the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>whose church is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/26/whose-church-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/26/whose-church-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[favorite posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ucc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united_church_of_christ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts. So, then, the eye cannot say to the hand, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need you!&#8221; Nor can the head say to the feet, &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t need you!&#8221; But that is just what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a moral imperative for victims?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/18/a-moral-imperative-for-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When hateful people produce lasting hatred in us &#8230; hate wins. When violent people make us violent &#8230; violence wins. When cruel people leave us with nothing but a burning desire for revenge in our minds and hearts &#8230; cruelty wins. When evil done to us gives birth to evil done by us &#8230; evil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i never really liked frank sinatra</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/16/i-never-really-liked-frank-sinatra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/08/16/i-never-really-liked-frank-sinatra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a generation too late to be much exposed to the music of Frank Sinatra, but I have heard enough and seen enough to know that I don&#8217;t like it. Sinatra&#8217;s style and demeanor evoke an image that is antithetical to values I hold especially dear. He is about the big city; I love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>poor in spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/07/08/poor-in-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/07/08/poor-in-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simplicity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[possessions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven &#8230; In Luke&#8217;s version, Jesus says, Blessed are you who are poor. Luke draws attention to Jesus&#8217; offer of grace and favor to those people human society has cast aside. Luke celebrates Jesus&#8217; stirring announcement of good news to the poor &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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