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		<title>Penultimate Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is my contribution to this month&#8217;s synchroblog that invites bloggers to weigh in on a monthly topic for discussion. This month’s topic asks the question: WHAT IF some or all of the Bible narrative is not necessarily true history, but is myth of one sort or another. What sort of effect would that knowledge have on &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2753&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the future comes, what are we all going to do with it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Orkinpod: Last week I wrote about whether or not we really needed economic growth, and I claimed that the central problems facing our economy and our society were not about the size, scale, or growth of our economy, but rather about some deeper, undisclosed set of problems. This week I am trying, haphazardly &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2695&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turn the other clip, this one is empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the March Synchroblog &#8220;Guns and God&#8221; which asks us to explore the controversial subject of gun control from our faith perspective. First, I should let you know that I am all for stricter gun laws and I believe I could use scripture and my Christian faith to argue my point &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2674&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cross Gender Friendships And The Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the February Synchroblog “Cross Gender Friendships”.  I will list the links to all the contributions at the end of this post as soon as they are available. Although I grew up going to a Baptist church and living in a conservative, Christian community I wandered from the church during my &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2637&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the January synchroblog &#8220;Serving Others In The New Year&#8221;  I will put a list of all the synchroblog links at the end of this post when they become available. A few years ago I began the new tradition of choosing one word as a theme for the upcoming year.  The &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2625&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent 2012 &#8211; Sometimes Dreams Do Come True</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of the December Synchroblog &#8221;Tell Me A Story&#8221; in which we are invited to tell an Advent story from our own life.  I will provide a list of the other contributors at the end of this post as they become available. I hope you will check them all out! “The hard work of &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2613&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days of Gratitude &#8211; Day Thirty &#8211; My Home</title>
		<link>http://gracerules.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/30-days-of-gratitude-day-thirty-my-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am thankful for my home. I have always been fortunate to have a home.  And as they say &#8230; there is no place like home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2595&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days of Gratitude &#8211; Day Twenty Nine &#8211; Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am thankful for forgiveness. Whether you are receiving it yourself or offering it to someone else it is a precious gift that heals the heart.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2591&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days of Gratitude &#8211; Day Twenty Eight &#8211; Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am thankful for words. I love words &#8211; reading them, speaking them, hearing them, writing them. Without words there would be no books, no blogs, no lyrics, no conversations, no news, no love letters, no words with friends, no emails &#8230; okay, so no emails might be good on some days LOL. But &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2599&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days of Gratitude &#8211; Day Twenty Seven &#8211; Christmas Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am thankful for Christmas lights. Christmas lights are not just beautiful &#8211; they are magical. We have all of our Christmas decorations up but the best part is the lights. They add so much.  They are like the icing on a cake.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3944975&#038;post=2588&#038;subd=gracerules&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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