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		<title>Feb 27, 2010</title>
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		<title>A New Slate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 40:1 &#8211; I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry. James 5:7-8 &#8211; My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man&#8217;s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Romans <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=867&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Series:  To Have Kids or Not to Have Kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I strive to always be honest with myself, and to do so now, I would have to admit that I have purposefully not asked God for His opinion on whether I should or should not have children. I feel certain that I have done so in order to maintain control over my life and future. Instead, I have logically analyzed motherhood and time-after-time determined that the cons outweigh the pros. But in thinking about the prayers I pray to the Lord, prayers for His sovereignty in my life and for my complete surrender unto His will... I am realizing that it is more than a little hypocritical for me to try to control my decision to have children. By doing so, I am trying to limit His reign in my life, while professing words that directly contradict those actions. I am saying to Him through my close-mindedness that I know better than He does in this area. How foolishly rash and disrespectful! As if I could know better than Him. Ha!  It is amazingly wrong and I certainly do not want to be the kind of Christian that only pays lip-service to God. I want to worship Him by living my life as He orchestrates it. I truly want His will to direct all of my steps<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=851&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to ask myself why God would allow me to enter into and feel such contentment and connection in a relationship with someone who wants children, given my own desires not to have them. Is this something He is trying to break me of? Is He using my boyfriend and his desire for a <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=849&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Voice from the Grave</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In that moment he was here - breathing, heart beating, synapses transmitting electrochemical signals - and now, he simply is not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=829&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can pretty much only go up from here<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=812&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drowning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m not trying hard enough. Mom seems to think that I am not, that I am allowing myself to feel too much, to be distracted too easily, that I should be able to control these things. Is she right? Am I not trying hard enough? The thing is&#8230; I feel like I have tried <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=804&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life after Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is absolutely bizarre to be in a place where someone used to be, knowing they&#8217;re no longer here. How bizarre. I am back home for the weekend before I jet off to the Dominican Republic and staying in my room has been just a bit strange. I haven&#8217;t slept in here since the summer <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=795&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Anesthesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the existential unrest? I miss it. I have become too numbed by circumstance. I am too fatigued by the day-to-day to dream and question and remember the injustices that lie parallel to my reality and how much I once longed to intersect with them for hope of somehow raising them to my plane <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=787&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hair happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[you can do all things. ALL things. because Christ is and always be in you<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livealchemy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4016836&amp;post=782&amp;subd=livealchemy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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