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		<title>A widow, a coin and a call</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 04:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning Pastor Marilyn preached on Luke 15&#8242;s story of the widow who searched her home top and bottom for a lost coin. Marilyn said a phrase that caught my ear: The coin had much more potential found, than it did when it was lost. As a lost coin it had possibilities to help the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=457&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have any profound thoughts for the daily Haiti blog today. Or at least they aren&#8217;t organized enough to post. So I wanted to show you my favorite photo of the day. We traveled to the region around the city of Kenscoff, to a village called Guibert. FH is running a program there called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=454&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we headed to the village of Cachiman, a four-hour drive east from Port-au-Prince. We were just minutes away from the Dominican border, so thankfully I was able to use my Spanish and speak directly with some FH staff, parents and community leaders who had some Spanish. Sometimes the conversation went English-Spanish-Creole and back again. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=452&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roadrunner physics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creator God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I ever tell you how I ended up wrapped around a tree branch with kayak over my head? It happened in a flash on Phoenix’s Salt River, on a day with high water and a strong current. I wasn’t watching what I was doing and suddenly I didn’t have the time or strength to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=439&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this a picture of a couple of little terrorists? I can&#8217;t put words into the mouths of these two children. A colleague of mine snapped their photo at a temporary shelter for Pakistani flood victims today. I don&#8217;t know what they are thinking or anything about their story. I doubt however that they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=431&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality check</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading David McCullough&#8217;s 1776, a thoughtful and fact-packed analysis of the US Revolutionary War.    We&#8217;ve all heard how poorly supplied and trained the US forces were. McCullough reproduces various letters from eyewitnesses lamenting that troops were dirty, dumb, undisciplined and lacking even basic fighting tools. (At one point, due to gunpowder shortages, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=426&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the persecuted church?</title>
		<link>http://musingswithbeth.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/where-is-the-persecuted-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a story this week that broke my heart. A Christian I know is faced with a tough choice.  She&#8217;s in a position to help families and youth heal from substance abuse, family violence and other issues.  But people in authority are now saying she&#8217;ll need to offer referrals to traditional tribal medicine men.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=415&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Dave at Food for the Hungry spoke from his heart at Chapel on Wednesday, about his recent visit to Haiti.  Dave has many years of experience in international development and considerable teaching gifts, so his devotionals hit both your heart and your intellect. He put the depth of the losses in Haiti into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=412&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ebenezer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hymn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I was in a hymn-singing mood yesterday.  I went walking after work, with &#8220;Nearer My God to Thee&#8221; for the first mile and &#8220;Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing&#8221; as my companion in the second mile.   In that second mile I started processing the day with God. And in the midst of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=406&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wonder</title>
		<link>http://musingswithbeth.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/wonder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my wonder back today. A sense of wonder is vital to my life.  Wonder is only possible if you admit you don&#8217;t know it all. You can&#8217;t have any wonder if you think you run the world. But I can lose that sense. I can think that I&#8217;m in control, that I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingswithbeth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8081301&amp;post=387&amp;subd=musingswithbeth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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