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		<title>The Smallest Snowflake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christiana was the smallest of all the snowflakes. It seemed she and her family, along with many other snowflake families, had been floating always through the long day as she tumbled delightfully about with her friends. But their journey took them as well through seemingly endless freezing cold and darkness. Sometimes the north wind blew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sterile Food Tree</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The telephone pole that captures my attention nursed no life-long ambition to telecommunications greatness. It was once a Douglas fir towering nearly 80 feet above the forest floor. Its trunk sways gently as the winds pass over its mountainside. Its great arms, clothed with successive layers of green foliage, shade the understory plants. Yet one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Robe Jesus Wore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible tells us in &#74;&#111;&#104;&#110; 19:23-24 that: 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2 Corinthians chapter 12, Paul speaks of the thorn in the flesh that he endured after asking God three times to take it away. And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurriedly, I walked out onto the patio to shake the small area rugs. Thinking all the while of the other mundane things that needed to be done, I noticed the crocuses were just peeking through the cold, dark earth and the hyacinths were up ready to bloom. I sat down on the step to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someday..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. "This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Never</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Never Let Go]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Some years ago, on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went. He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator was swimming toward the shore.
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Tool Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was advertised that the devil was going to put his tools up for sale. On the date of the sale, the tools were placed for public inspection; each tool being marked with its sale price. They were a treacherous lot of implements ... Hatred, Envy, Jealousy,Deceit, Lying, Pride, And so on.... Laid apart from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbers and God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Bean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it, and wanted to give up. She was tired of all the fighting and struggling. It seemed as though in solving one problem, two more would arise. Her [...]]]></description>
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