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| THE POWER OF NO |
| February 6, 2008 |
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I have been whining for weeks to whomever would listen about how early Lent is this year. Whose idea was this, I have demanded,but answer came there none -- those who dreamed up the Christian calendar have been dead for centuries, and are well beyond my retribution.
But now Ash Wednesday is here, and suddenly I am glad. Perhaps Lent will put some of the starch back in me. I awaken with relief from a tedious dream involving a parade of objectionable old boyfriends and welcome the thought of a new start, a fiercer cutting off of things that are, at best, a waste of time and, at worst, actively harmful. Thanks be to God, I don't have to stay with things that don't fit, am not doomed to reinjury, again and again.
There are two ways of looking at Lenten deprivation. One is as a penance for sin, a purification of old habits to cleanse the soul. The other is as a strengthening, the spiritual equivalent of a fitness regimen at the gym. Your self-denial can make you a stronger person. You learn that you can receive the power to tell yourself "no" sometimes, and that your "no" is less important than the power to say it.
Jesus sits in the wilderness and wants the things we all want. He sits there until he knows he can live life without any of them, becasue he knows, as we all must know, that we all will lose everything. And then he arises and returns to his world, as we return daily to ours. But we know more about what we can do with the power we have been given than we knew when we began.
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| Copyright © 2010 Barbara Crafton |
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Lemon - 02/19/07
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Where's the Dread? / One Next Sunday - 02/16/07
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First Things First - 02/14/07
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Sleep Deficit - 02/13/07
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A Weekend Beginning - 02/10/07
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The Limitations of Like Minds / New Tools, More Food and a Lot More Time - 02/09/07
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Flat Head - 02/08/07
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Birds of a Feather Fight Together - 02/07/07
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Wisdom - 02/06/07
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Nobody Does It Better - 02/05/07
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Comfortable Words / We Will Not Forget You - 02/02/07
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Three Pillars: The Zen of Ben - 02/01/07
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What I Do Is Up To Me - 01/29/07
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The Straightening - 01/27/07
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Sabbath Evening - 01/26/07
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A Quick Change in Pastorate / Anybody and Everybody - 01/25/07
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Evacuation - 01/24/07
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Love the One You're With: A Life in Cats - 01/22/07
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The Group - 01/20/07
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Jesus Goes To His High School Reunion / Glad To Be Alive - 01/19/07
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Not By a Long Shot - 01/17/07
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O Gladdening Light - 01/16/07
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Lose Weight in Your Pajamas! - 01/16/07
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Being the Change You Want to See - 01/15/07
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The Good Wine / What We Learn in School - 01/12/07
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Two Proper Places - 01/10/07
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Purrs and Prayers - 01/09/07
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A Tender Self - 01/08/07
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Visitors - 01/06/07
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Baptizing the Lukewarm / Just How Is God With Us? - 01/05/07
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You'll Think of Something - 01/04/07
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A Premature Departure - 01/03/07
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Resolutions and Prayers - 01/02/07
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Cats on Drugs - 12/30/06
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The Word of God / Civil War and Civil Healing - 12/29/06
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Flowers and Bears - 12/28/06
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Feast of St. John Doe - 12/27/06
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Deacon and Martyr - 12/26/06
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Christmas 101 - 12/23/06
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She Who Believed / For the Person Who Has Everything - 12/22/06
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Roommates - 12/21/06
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The Self-Anointed Righteous - 12/20/06
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Zindaagi! - 12/19/06
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The Perfect Tree - 12/18/06
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Never Mind - 12/16/06
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Cupcake-ness - 12/15/06
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Good and Faithful Servant - 12/14/06
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Good News-Bad News / Needs and Wants: Nothing to Wear - 12/13/06
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One of Those Years - 12/12/06
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Emergency Room--Carpe Dieum - 12/11/06
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Down the Drain - 12/09/06
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Messiah - 12/08/06
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The Big Boys / Gifts From the Heart - 12/07/06
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Ordination, Feast of St Nicholas, 1980 - 12/06/06
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A Blanket of Air - 12/05/06
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Gift List - 12/04/06
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No Coincidences? - 11/30/06
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What Do You See? / Face to Face - 11/29/06
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Not Another Cat Tale - 11/27/06
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Celery is the New Toast - 11/24/06
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Cooking With the Next Generation - 11/22/06
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Fainting Dead Away - 11/20/06
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A Mystery, But Not a Secret - 11/17/06
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Lucky Isn't Good Enough - 11/15/06
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Wanna Buy Some Hope? / Food That Does Not Fail - 11/10/06
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The Farm Summit - 11/08/06
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Citizen Q - 11/07/06
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Jesus Picks and Chooses / Love Is A Goal - 11/03/06
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Halloween Unplugged - 10/31/06
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Very Simple, But Still Here - 10/28/06
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Differently Abled / Who Knows What You Need? - 10/27/06
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Second-Hand Life - 10/24/06
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Just A Month To Go - 10/23/06
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Who Sits Where? / Bright Sunny Days - 10/20/06
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Good News For a Change - 10/13/06
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Spooks in the Garden, Spiders on the Porch / New Houses For Old - 10/12/06
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Rest --Don't Schedule! - 10/09/06
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Lies in the Garden - 10/04/06
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Not Invented Here - 09/30/06
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Confusion and Gift - 09/25/06
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Shabby Thoughts / Welcoming The Child - 09/23/06
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The Dream of the Priest - 09/20/06
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Why Take Up My Cross? - 09/16/06
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A Traffic Jam and Pieta - 09/11/06
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Up Close and Personal / A Balance of Hearing and Doing - 09/08/06
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Missing the First Day of School - 09/06/06
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The Turning - 09/05/06
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The Sermon of the Fruit Fly - 09/04/06
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A Busy Conscience / In the Middle of a War - 09/01/06
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Intimations of Mortality - 08/29/06
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The Spirit and the Word / Do You Also Wish To Go Away? - 08/26/06
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Garden Tour - 08/23/06
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The Guns of August - 08/17/06
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Drawn by the Father / Help That Really Helps - 08/11/06
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Hummingbird Heaven - 08/10/06
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I Am a Catheter - 08/08/06
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Chairs in Distress and Bliss - 08/07/06
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Silence, and Light Beyond Color / A Bright Light - 08/04/06
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Hot and Cold - 08/02/06
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While - 07/31/06
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Tomato: We Shall Not Be Moved - 07/19/06
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The Geometry of Choice - 07/18/06
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On the Road Again / The Demons of War and the Prince of Peace - 07/13/06
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Dinner With Ethel Merman - 07/11/06
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A Dream and a Production Meeting - 07/10/06
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Leaving Home / Small Deeds of Power - 07/08/06
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Independence Day / Day of Dysfunction - 07/05/06
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A Sophistication Gap / Even Before the Rain Has Stopped - 06/30/06
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Mensch and Mitzvah - 06/29/06
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The Lasagna Method of Gardening - 06/24/06
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Whipping Boy / Tell Your Friends - 06/23/06
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Peace in Our Time - 06/22/06
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In the Beauty of the Mustard / A Part of the Middle Harvest - 06/16/06
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The Grace of the Machine - 06/15/06
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Thelma and Louise - 06/13/06
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Adelynrood - 06/10/06
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What Difference Does It Make, Anyway? - 06/08/06
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A Famous Short Creed / Walking Toward the Kingdom, Working on the World - 06/07/06
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Patience - 06/06/06
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Objects in This Life Are Larger Than They Appear - 06/05/06
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Population Control - 06/01/06
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A Loss Not Yet Spoken - 05/30/06
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Excavation - 05/30/06
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Greeting the Garden - 05/22/06
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Morning and Evening, A Second Day - 05/17/06
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Love Means... - 05/12/06
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't / Friends Join Hands on the Jericho Road - 05/11/06
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The Cookbook and the Church - 05/09/06
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Face - 05/08/06
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The Good Shepherd Weeps / A New Kind of Falling in Love - 05/03/06
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Doorknobs in the Fruit Bowl - 05/01/06
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Alligators - 04/24/06
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A Choice, Not a Conclusion / Scars Still Show, But They Don't Still Bleed - 04/20/06
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Where Are They Now? - 04/19/06
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Waiting, Holy Saturday - 04/15/06
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Judas, In Rewrite - 04/13/06
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Howl: Bach's St. John Passion - 04/10/06
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ePrayer - 04/04/06
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The Life in the Seed / Stopping by the Plant Stand - 03/31/06
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Birthday - 03/28/06
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The Lord Will Provide / Bang for the Buck - 03/24/06
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The Moment Farthest - 03/22/06
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Happy Waiting - 03/20/06
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Turning the Tables / Under Construction for Forty-Six Years - 03/16/06
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Bleeding Heart - 03/14/06
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Ethel On Her Way - 03/11/06
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The Lesson We Have To Preach On - 03/09/06
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Tug of War - 03/06/06
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The Princess Plate - 02/28/06
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Serenity in Southern Pines - 02/26/06
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Trees - 02/23/06
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Dazzling White / The Lord is in the Knitting - 02/22/06
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God is Good, All the time - 02/21/06
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Googling Noodle - 02/18/06
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Illness, Sin and Cure / Water To My Chosen People - 02/17/06
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The Big Bang: Love Walked In - 02/14/06
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Cold Season - 02/11/06
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An Outrage! / If You Choose, You Can - 02/10/06
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The Return - 02/08/06
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Rage for Order - 02/06/06
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Jesus Claims Some Quiet Time / A Force to Reckon With - 02/01/06
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Fog - 01/30/06
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Mozart 250: 1756-2006 - 01/27/06
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Not In God's Name / Heat, Medicine...and Some Other Good News - 01/25/06
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Breakfast - 01/23/06
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Minneapolis - 01/21/06
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How Easy, How Hard, How Light, How Dark / Helping Those who Help Themselves - 01/19/06
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A Circular Saw - 01/17/06
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Soul Intimates - 01/14/06
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Premature Daffs - 01/10/06
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Dilettante Studies - 01/09/06
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The Day After 12th Night - 01/07/06
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Herding Cats - 01/06/06
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A Decent Tombstone - 01/03/06
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Black-Eyed Peas - 01/01/06
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Sanctifying Sloth - 12/31/05
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What Is Your Real Name? / Under the Stars - 12/29/05
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A Christmas Tomato - 12/26/05
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Measuring Carpentry and Motherhood - 12/24/05
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Just Plain, but So Sweet - 12/23/05
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What Normal Is Now / Gifts for Life - 12/21/05
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Grace Among the Linzer Torten - 12/20/05
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It's Not Over 'til It's Over, And Maybe Not Even Then. - 12/17/05
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Everyone's Mary / Mothers and Angels - 12/14/05
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Night Light - 12/12/05
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The Dance - 12/10/05
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I Must Decrease / The School of Hope - 12/08/05
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Anniversary Waltz - 12/06/05
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A Choice - 12/02/05
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Afraid to Hope Out Loud - 12/01/05
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A Popular Preacher / Comfort for the Long Haul - 11/29/05
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From the Primal Elephants - 11/28/05
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What You Can See From the Center of the Universe - 11/26/05
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An Heirloom Turkey - 11/25/05
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Felix Culpa - 11/15/05
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Coals of Fire - 11/12/05
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The Fire Next Time - 11/08/05
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Fall FarmFest - 11/07/05
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It's Not Always What You Read That Counts - 11/04/05
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Imagine Our Future Joy / Light in the Darkness - 11/03/05
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Buying Time - 11/02/05
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A Partial Litany of the Saints - 11/01/05
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No PowerPoint - 10/29/05
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Confused Trees and a Calculating Cat - 10/28/05
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When You Hear The Lord is on Our Side-- Run / Easy to Say - 10/27/05
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A Seat on the Bus, A Seat at the Table - 10/25/05
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All Aboard - 10/24/05
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Thank God It Wasn't Worse. Then Be Quiet. - 10/22/05
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A Welcome Contraction - 10/21/05
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Your Neighbor and Yourself - 10/20/05
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Open and Closed - 10/14/05
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Whose Image Is This? / Only God Anoints - 10/13/05
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Fellows on the Farm - 10/11/05
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A Long Weekend - 10/07/05
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Hell, Again? / Life Goes On As Usual - 10/05/05
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Building Wall - 10/03/05
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The Watchtower and the Fruit / Replanting the Wasteland - 09/29/05
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The Wrong Door - 09/26/05
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Equinox - 09/22/05
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The Comfort of Small Things - 09/21/05
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Getting It / Acts of God - 09/20/05
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Ding, Dong, The Book Is Done! - 09/18/05
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Stress and Bless - 09/13/05
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Beliefnet.com's Live Prayer Service for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina - 09/10/05
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Forgiveness / Jambalaya - 09/09/05
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Exeunt Hummingbirds - 09/07/05
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Nothing to See - 09/05/05
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The Waters Continue to Rise - 08/31/05
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Get Behind Me! / Waters That Fail - 08/25/05
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What's-Her-Name and the Watering Can - 08/22/05
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Holding Back the Sea - 08/19/05
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The Promised Land / Finding the Rock - 08/17/05
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Church Shoes - 08/15/05
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Shopping Trip - 08/12/05
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The Children's Food to the Dogs? - 08/11/05
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Away From the Farm - 08/08/05
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What Paul Would Give Up / Despair Will Not Stop Us - 08/05/05
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Enter Ethel Merman - 08/01/05
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Noodle and the Dragonfly - 07/30/05
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Outsider Gospels - 07/29/05
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Betting the Farm / Who Will Separate Us? - 07/27/05
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We Will Fight Them in the Malls - 07/26/05
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Tiny Spirit of the Garden - 07/25/05
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Boats, Nets, Fish - 07/22/05
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A Hippo Thinks Outside the Box - 07/18/05
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Only One of Each of Us - 07/16/05
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It's Not Over 'Til It's Over / Who's the Enemy? - 07/14/05
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Easter in July - 07/12/05
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A Psalm of Cats and Dogs - 07/09/05
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Friday Morning - 07/08/05
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Deliberate Attack - 07/07/05
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Home for the Fourth of July - 07/04/05
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Storm Cloud and Thunderbolt, Glorify the Lord! - 06/30/05
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Hoping Against Hope - 06/27/05
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Corpus Christi - 06/24/05
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Not Peace, But A Sword / Our Reward, Phase II - 06/23/05
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Geranium Fest - 06/21/05
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Gypsy's Workout - 06/18/05
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Faith Is Not An Amulet / Flee! - 06/16/05
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At Last - 06/15/05
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Job's Comforter - 06/14/05
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This Red-Hot Moment - 06/13/05
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Good-bye and Thanks, Friend I Never Met - 06/10/05
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Baking Bread at High Noon - 06/07/05
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Be It Ever So Humble - 06/03/05
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Ancient Sounds - 06/02/05
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WWJD / A Realistic Hope - 06/01/05
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A Host of Golden Dandelions - 05/31/05
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The Long Parade - 05/30/05
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Growth In Good Time - 05/27/05
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The Second Half of the Sentence - 05/26/05
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Lord, Lord! / Hear and Act - 05/25/05
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A Bed of Catmint - 05/24/05
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Inconsistent? Get Over It - 05/23/05
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The Great Commission / Goodness Again - 05/19/05
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A Heap of Human Hearts and Minds - 05/17/05
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Each and All, Together - 05/16/05
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Someone For Everyone - 05/13/05
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Melt Me, Mold Me, Fill Me, Use Me / The Repair of the World - 05/12/05
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Birds on the Farm - 05/09/05
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That They May Be One / Finish What You Start - 05/06/05
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What We Have Now - 05/04/05
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Ordinary Life, For As Long As It Lasts - 05/03/05
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A Perfect Afternoon - 05/02/05
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The Ivory-Bill Returns - 04/29/05
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The Kindest Cut / Tomatoes and More - 04/28/05
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A Chain of Human Beings - 04/25/05
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Return to the Garden - 04/23/05
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One Day At A Time - 04/21/05
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Beauty and Warning - 04/20/05
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Whose Troubled Heart Is This? / The Works of God - 04/19/05
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Cut Cleanly - 04/18/05
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Losing the Old Life - 04/16/05
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The Uncertainty Principle - 04/14/05
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Where the Bread Was - 04/13/05
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A Life that Longs and Follows / Our Practical Ambassadors of Christ - 04/12/05
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An Alternate Route - 04/11/05
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The Afternoon Begins - 04/09/05
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Love God and Do What You Will - 04/08/05
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Didn't We Know It All Along? - 04/07/05
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The Darker Side of Daylight - 04/05/05
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Two new features on our Farm - 04/02/05
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The Weather Canticle - 04/02/05
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The View From Above - 04/01/05
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Not in a Magazine - 03/31/05
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No Faith? Show Your Need, Instead / Aftermath and Healing - 03/29/05
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A New Magisterium - 03/28/05
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Mass in B Minor - 03/25/05
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FED UP - 03/24/05
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The Terry Shiavo Case.... - 03/21/05
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Measuring Prayer - 03/18/05
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Valle Crucis - 03/17/05
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At least, A Beginning - 03/16/05
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The First Mothers Union - 03/15/05
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That Fallow Feeling - 03/14/05
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Practice Makes It Wonderful - 03/11/05
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A Time of Rapid Change - 03/09/05
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Can these bones live? / I am going there to awaken him - 03/08/05
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Enter Sally - 03/07/05
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Two New Old Friends - 03/04/05
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Away From the Why and Into the What - 03/03/05
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Barefoot in the Snow - 03/01/05
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Abdicate the Lonely Throne - 02/28/05
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If It's Beauty You Want - 02/25/05
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Snow Prayer - 02/24/05
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Water in the Heat of Noonday / Water, Everywhere - 02/23/05
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Get Out of Jail - 02/22/05
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A Change in the Weather? - 02/21/05
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You Don't Even Have to Put a Nickel In - 02/18/05
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Another Path to the Same Place - 02/15/05
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Kitchen - 02/14/05
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Carolina - 02/12/05
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Blood - 02/11/05
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Sign of the Divine / A Mountain of Mud and Wood - 02/09/05
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Practice Purring - 02/08/05
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Power From the Wound - 02/07/05
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About Money: An Ethical Pause - 02/05/05
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Pray for the Pope - 02/03/05
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Get Up! - 02/02/05
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Northeast Corridor - 02/01/05
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Long-Form Improv - 01/31/05
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Election Prayers - 01/27/05
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Simply at Home - 01/25/05
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From Beige to Pink, A Mile High - 01/22/05
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That Explosive Beauty, That Veiled Threat - 01/20/05
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Dream Meeting - 01/19/05
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A Discerning Moment Takes a Long, Long Time / People Whose Lives We Know - 01/18/05
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Paper Chains - 01/17/05
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There Are No Small Parts / Strike While the Iron Is Hot - 01/13/05
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A Moment in a Church's Life - 01/12/05
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Still, They Give Us Love and Power - 01/10/05
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A Dark Night and a Seed Catalogue - 01/08/05
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To Each, Our own Joy - 01/05/05
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The Waters of life and Death - 01/04/05
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To-Do List - 01/03/05
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The New Year Smiles, the Old One Creeps Away - 12/31/04
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A Walk in the Wild - 12/30/04
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A Steady Beam of Love and Truth - 12/28/04
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Wisdom, Stature, Favor / How to Bless Those in Sudden Need - 12/27/04
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This Little Babe - 12/25/04
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A Birth With Honest Animals - 12/24/04
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Heavy Church, Fair Linen - 12/23/04
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Solstice - 12/21/04
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The Christmas Throne - 12/20/04
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A Christmas Laser Pointer - 12/17/04
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Animals Near You - 12/16/04
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Curds and Honey / Love Casts Out Shame - 12/15/04
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Shop. And Then Drop It. - 12/14/04
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What We Leave Behind - 12/13/04
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You Can Taste the Past - 12/09/04
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A Moment of Doubt in a Life of Faith / The Kingdom Comes, One by One by One - 12/08/04
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Safe and Warm - 12/07/04
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Buried Beneath the Brown - 12/06/04
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Strength That Looks Like Weakness - 12/03/04
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All Will Know of Their Beauty - 12/02/04
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A Shoot From a Stump / Involuntary Simplicity - 12/01/04
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We were Never Supposed to Get It All Done - 11/29/04
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Tradition, Soft and Yielding - 11/27/04
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For My Shredder and All God's Mercies, Nun Danket - 11/25/04
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There's More Than One Kind of Sweet - 11/24/04
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Against a Life of Might-Have-Been / Helping Is Always the Same...and Always Different - 11/23/04
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Exotic Visitors - 11/22/04
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Today in Paradise / Like Christ - 11/18/04
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Sex, Lies and Preaching: A Dream of Infidelity - 11/17/04
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Talking about War in Tennessee - 11/15/04
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The Coming Thanksgiving - 11/12/04
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Strange Meeting - 11/11/04
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Eating the Book / The Front Page - 11/10/04
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The Great Escape - 11/09/04
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On the Road - 11/08/04
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What You Win When You Lose - 11/06/04
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Noodle's Lessons in Niceness - 11/04/04
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Moral Values / A Knock on the Widow's Door - 11/03/04
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Behind the Curtain - 11/02/04
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Home Away From Home - 11/01/04
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Ms Subways: The Campaign Begins - 10/28/04
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The Truth, For Once - 10/27/04
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And There Is No Health In Us - 10/26/04
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Staying The Course (The Gambler) - 10/25/04
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The Favorite Cat - 10/21/04
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Later -- and Lower -- Than We Think and A Simple Saving of Children's Lives - 10/20/04
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Cornwallis at Yorktown - 10/19/04
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Citizen Q - 10/18/04
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Baking Friday Afternoon - 10/16/04
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Flu Season - 10/15/04
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The Favorite Leaf - 10/13/04
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The Sensible Knave / Stubborn Love - 10/12/04
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Thanks for Christopher Reeve - 10/11/04
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Ivy Wars - 10/09/04
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Hah! - 10/07/04
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Trust in Propagation - 10/06/04
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Are You Better Off? - 10/05/04
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Though the Earth Remains - 10/04/04
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Yesterday's Buttons - 09/30/04
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Mitzvah and Duty - 09/29/04
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Read. Think. Talk. Pray. Vote. - 09/28/04
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The Taj Mahal at 300 - 09/27/04
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But Thank God We're Alive - 09/24/04
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Love Renders Us Lovely/Us, Too, It Endears - 09/23/04
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Ineffectual Warnings and An Effectual One - 09/22/04
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Errata - 09/21/04
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At the Gate - 09/18/04
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Things That Don't Show - 09/17/04
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The Capacity for Indifference and Despair - 09/16/04
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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness - 09/15/04
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On the Feast of the Holy Cross - 09/14/04
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We Who About to Die Salute You - 09/13/04
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Procession - 09/09/04
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Foreword: "Saving Salvation" and the ERD Sermon eMo - 09/08/04
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Our Town - 09/06/04
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Something to Fight For - 09/04/04
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Do I Have To Hate My Mom? / Ubuntu: We Are Never Alone - 09/02/04
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Mystery Vine Identified - 08/28/04
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This Bird Has Flown - 08/27/04
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Mercy and Truth Have Kissed Each Other - 08/26/04
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Auditionh: Just Tell Me When It's Over and "Here Comes the Wife" - 08/25/04
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Audition: Just Tell Me When It's Over and "Here Comes the Wife" - 08/25/04
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name? - 08/24/04
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A Glorious Tangle of Beauty and Ugliness - 08/21/04
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Enter Heidi - 08/20/04
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Pater Noster - 08/19/04
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The Bed is Too Short, but the Last Shall Be First - 08/18/04
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A Body At Rest - 08/13/04
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Talk, and the Author of Talk - 08/12/04
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Talk in the Garden - 08/11/04
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Prayer for Ordinary People - 08/10/04
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Cream Puffs - 08/05/04
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The Thief in the Night - 08/03/04
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Home Again - 08/02/04
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You Can't Take It With You - 07/28/04
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Go, Lance! - 07/26/04
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear - 07/23/04
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Good-Bye to Kenyon, Until Next Year - 07/22/04
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Real Food and Fairy Dust - 07/20/04
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A Summer Week of College Life - 07/19/04
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The Best Defense - 07/16/04
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The Herb Garden - 07/14/04
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Lazybones - 07/13/04
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The Saint of Lost Things - and Somebody Else - 07/12/04
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Bridal Shower - 07/10/04
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The Case Against Cat Ethics - 07/09/04
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What a Piece of Work - 07/08/04
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My Good Samaritan - 07/07/04
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Missing - 07/06/04
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The Fifth of July - 07/05/04
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No Vacancies Anytime Soon - 07/03/04
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Lavender Day - 07/01/04
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From House to House - 06/30/04
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The Holding Cross - 06/29/04
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The Early News - 06/28/04
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An Ugly Voice Within - 06/25/04
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The Tribe - 06/23/04
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In the Clink - 06/21/04
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Some Good Investments - 06/19/04
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A New Kitten, and a Cat Poultice - 06/18/04
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Outward Appearances - 06/17/04
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Rock Journey - 06/16/04
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You Only Live Once - 06/15/04
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Dear Lord - 06/14/04
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The Morning Sun - 06/12/04
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A State Funeral - 06/11/04
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The Bamboo Curtain - 06/10/04
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Mayor v. Noise - 06/09/04
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Preach It! and A Second Chance to be a Child - 06/08/04
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Rematch: The Old Enemies - 06/07/04
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Call for Recipes and...Princess Beads! - 06/07/04
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A Mountaintop Experience - 06/05/04
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The Songs - 06/04/04
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News in the Night - 06/03/04
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Just Tell Me The Truth - 06/02/04
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The Spirit and the World - 06/01/04
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A Subtle Progress - 05/29/04
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The Nurse - 05/28/04
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Seventeen - 05/27/04
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Summit - 05/26/04
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Tonguesof Fire, Breath of Peace - 05/24/04
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Don't Schedule That Funeral Until You Know For Sure You're Dead - 05/22/04
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Spring Concert - 05/21/04
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Alternate Side of The Street Parking Suspended - 05/20/04
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Even Now - 05/19/04
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The Rules of Engagement / Come to the Water - 05/18/04
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A Hike Worth Its Price - 05/17/04
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Get Ready for Joy - 05/15/04
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Fundraising in Hell - 05/14/04
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Flip a Switch. Turn a Dial. Press "Send" - 05/13/04
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The Olympic Track - 05/12/04
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Someone Else's House - 05/11/04
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In the First Grey Light of Morning, Peace - 05/10/04
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More Than One Way - 05/08/04
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A Princess At Last - 05/07/04
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A Ha-Ha - 05/06/04
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Where Are They Now? - 05/05/04
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Shame - 05/04/04
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The Yearly Hope of Hummers - 05/03/04
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A Walk in the Rain - 05/01/04
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Good-Bye, Bob - 04/30/04
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On Television, Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow - 04/29/04
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If You Really Cared - 04/28/04
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Some problems sending -- this may be a duplicate! No need to let me know... - 04/27/04
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The Lamb, the Ox, the Shepherd: Two Sermon Meditations - 04/27/04
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When Does the Work Finally Stop? - 04/26/04
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What the Flowers Say - 04/24/04
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Fish on the Beach for Breakfast - 04/23/04
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No Paired Life Is Seamless - 04/22/04
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Too Many Deadlines - 04/21/04
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Under the Dogwood Tree - 04/20/04
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Another Passion - 04/19/04
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They Can't Take That Away From Me - 04/17/04
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Hot? Cold? A Rose? - 04/16/04
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Where the Buck Stops - 04/15/04
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How We Know - 04/14/04
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Operant Conditioning - 04/13/04
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After the Easter Feast - 04/12/04
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Resurrection - 04/11/04
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The Bustle of a House - 04/10/04
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Two Words - 04/09/04
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So What Was the Sermon About? - 04/08/04
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Spy Wednesday - 04/07/04
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Who Is This? - 04/06/04
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Spring Forward - 04/05/04
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Be Careful. And Pray. - 04/02/04
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Dancing in the Dark - 04/01/04
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Time for a Pruning - 03/31/04
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Letter From America - 03/30/04
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Believing Our Eyes - 03/29/04
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Stars Fell On Alabama - 03/26/04
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Some Lives, More Than Others - 03/25/04
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Nobody Makes Us Learn - 03/24/04
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Morning With Godzilla - 03/23/04
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Embarazado - 03/22/04
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Look Big. Make Noise. - 03/20/04
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Life Together - 03/19/04
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The Prayer of the Presence of God - 03/18/04
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The Prodigal Son - 03/17/04
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An Almost-Spring Snow - 03/16/04
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Sunrise - 03/15/04
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The Space Where Sound Will Be - 03/13/04
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The Organizer Bag - 03/12/04
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Happy Trails - 03/11/04
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A Nice, Nice Dog - 03/10/04
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The Search for Armadillo - 03/09/04
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Not Silence. Fire. - 03/08/04
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Insert An Emotion - 03/06/04
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The Narrow Door - 03/05/04
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Common Sense. Exquisite Beauty. - 03/04/04
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A Terrible Beauty is Born - 03/03/04
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Eat Plenty of Chocolate. But Try the Carrot Cake. - 03/02/04
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Forcing Bloom - 03/01/04
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We Have People For That - 02/27/04
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Eating Like A Bird - 02/26/04
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Oh, Yes. I Remember. - 02/25/04
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The Challenge of the New Technology - 02/24/04
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News of a Friend - 02/23/04
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A Pleasant Train Ride - 02/21/04
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We Thought We Already Were What We Would Always Be - 02/20/04
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Another Day at the Factory - 02/18/04
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Prayer in Time of War - 02/17/04
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May the Day and the Year Be Just Long Enough - 02/16/04
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Heaven Remembers What It Was Like Here - 02/13/04
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Love That Dares Not Squeak Its Name - 02/12/04
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The Office, The Kitchen, The Chapel, The Office - 02/11/04
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Pattern Your Life - 02/10/04
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Up the Slippery Slope - 02/09/04
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Change Something - 02/06/04
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The Cusp of Girl to Woman - 02/05/04
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'Failure' Is Not a Dirty Word - 02/04/04
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Love is Not love, That Alters When It Alteration Finds - 02/03/04
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Super Bowl Sunday - 02/02/04
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The Scandalous Breadth of God's Love - 01/30/04
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Honorable Resignations - 01/29/04
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The Stockholm Effect - 01/28/04
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The Visit of Life - 01/27/04
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An Important Piece of Mail - 01/26/04
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Waterfront Visit - 01/24/04
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The Best Years of Your Life - 01/23/04
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Citizen Q - 01/22/04
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The Cross, the Turban and the Hijab - 01/21/04
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Take My Hand - 01/20/04
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Worthy of Those Who Have Gone Before - 01/19/04
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500 Bottles of Wine - 01/16/04
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Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem - 01/15/04
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A Public Service of Healing - 01/14/04
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A Rule of Life - 01/13/04
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Holy Communion - 01/12/04
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Living in War, Preparing for Peace - 01/09/04
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Dangerous Gifts - 01/08/04
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Pools of Water, A Row of Pine Trees - 01/07/04
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The Faith of Cats - 01/06/04
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After the Need is Past - 01/05/04
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On the Road Again - 01/03/04
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The Most Social of Our Phylum - 01/02/04
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Vigils - 01/01/04
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New Year's Eve Day - 12/31/03
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Blessed Order - 12/29/03
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Part VIII A Child is Born - 12/28/03
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Where's the Baby? - 12/26/03
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A Christmas Story: Part VII - A Story and a Stable - 12/24/03
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A Christmas Story: Part VI - A Baby and a Journey - 12/23/03
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A Christmas Story: Part V - The Table - 12/22/03
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A Christmas Story: Part IV - The Visit Continues. The Sojourn Begins. - 12/19/03
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A Christmas Story: Part III - The Visit - 12/17/03
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A Christmas Story: Part II - A Conversation in the Kitchen - 12/16/03
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A Christmas Story: Part I - Annunciation - 12/15/03
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The Truth is Alive - 12/12/03
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The Lord Be With You - 12/11/03
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Candles and Quiet Voices - 12/10/03
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers - 12/09/03
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A Long Winter's Nap - 12/08/03
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Demon Chocolate Spritz Cookies - 12/06/03
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Duluth, 1920. - 12/05/03
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The Collegiality Wars - 12/04/03
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Quiet Day - 12/03/03
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Time Travel in the Wee Hours - 12/02/03
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Eternal Turkey - 12/01/03
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Oh! The Beginnings and Endings! - 11/29/03
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A Run in the Woods - 11/27/03
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Your Turkey and Your Life - 11/26/03
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An Anniversary Waltz - 11/25/03
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Fly Away - 11/24/03
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Christ the King - 11/21/03
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I Gotta Be Me is Not in the Hymnal - 11/20/03
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The God of Leaf and Stem - 11/19/03
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The People's Temple - 11/18/03
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Let Us Bless the Lord! - 11/17/03
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The End of the World - 11/14/03
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Something's Coming - 11/13/03
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You Don't Run Your Own Turning Point - 11/12/03
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Veterans' Day - 11/11/03
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Silver in the Dark - 11/10/03
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Perchance to Dream - 11/08/03
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Not A Word - 11/07/03
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Your Life's Ambitions - 11/05/03
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Just Look at This Mess! - 11/04/03
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Time to Leave Each Other Alone for a Spell - 11/03/03
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The Dying of the Light - 11/01/03
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This Feast of All Saints - 10/31/03
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If the Internet Were Part of the Trinity.... - 10/30/03
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Let Us Bless the Lord - 10/29/03
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Somebody MIght Get Hurt - 10/28/03
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Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Is Dead - 10/27/03
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Flying Squirrels - 10/25/03
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What Do You Want Me To Do For You? - 10/24/03
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Dream Baby - 10/23/03
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Life, Stood Still in Time - 10/22/03
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Pie. Beneath the Sky. Right Now. - 10/21/03
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The Devil Can Take the Rest of the Day Off - 10/20/03
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Music Makes Things Possible - 10/18/03
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Disciples Behaving Badly - 10/17/03
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Pray for Your Enemies...First - 10/16/03
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Now Thank We All Our God - 10/14/03
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Invisible Beginnings - 10/12/03
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I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me. - 10/11/03
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The Rules - 10/10/03
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Home - 10/09/03
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The Mid-Size Divorce - 10/08/03
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Life Music - 10/07/03
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Second Chances - 10/06/03
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Room for Repentance - 10/03/03
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Let Us Pray - 10/02/03
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Nothing Gold Can Stay - 10/01/03
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Grandmother Magic - 09/30/03
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A Gentle Good Night - 09/29/03
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Stand Back. God is Free. - 09/26/03
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Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer. - 09/25/03
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Trust in God. Suspect Yourself - 09/23/03
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A Second Chance - 09/22/03
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The Garden and the Church - 09/20/03
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Everybody Can Be Great - 09/19/03
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Bad Things Happen When You Rush - 09/17/03
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Hail, Mary! - 09/16/03
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The Only Cross You Choose is the One Around Your Neck - 09/15/03
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You Are the Christ - 09/12/03
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The Tower of Siloam - 09/11/03
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Between the Crickets and the Coyotes - 09/09/03
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The Dangerous Hope of Autumn - 09/08/03
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Super Jesus - 09/05/03
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Pray & Choose - 09/04/03
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First Day of School - 09/03/03
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Getting Lost in the Woods - 09/02/03
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We're Not Climbing Jacob's Ladder - 09/01/03
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Food For Thought - 08/30/03
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Cleanliness Next to Godliness? - 08/29/03
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What We Really Need - 08/28/03
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Pets and People - 08/27/03
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Then The Imam Fainted - 08/26/03
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Life Goes On - 08/25/03
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Update Your Antivirus Protection - 08/23/03
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Just What We Need..... - 08/22/03
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Heads or Tails - 08/21/03
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Welcome Home - 08/20/03
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Curves & Carves - 08/19/03
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A Cursing Jesus? - 08/18/03
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You Could See the Stars in the Sky - 08/16/03
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Bread of Life - 08/15/03
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Hearts and Minds to Follow Where Law Has Led - 08/14/03
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Normal is a Statistical Term - 08/13/03
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O Brave New World, Dude - 08/12/03
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Don't Know, Must Choose - 08/09/03
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Bread for the World - 08/08/03
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Nasturtiums - 06/12/03
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Dinosaur Tracks - 06/11/03
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Small Victories - 06/10/03
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Yoga - 06/07/03
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The Feast - 06/06/03
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