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	<title>Beauty from Ashes</title>
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		<title>Reflections.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the end of one year and the beginning of another is a time almost everyone takes to look back and take stock, and look forward and wonder. For me, days and milestones carry great significance. Days that I can remember and look back and point to as the day something ended and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/12/31/reflections/</link>
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		<title>This One Thing and No Other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s all about the Great Romance. This one nothing and no other is our heart, is what we were created for, what we were made to live and to die for. This one thing and no other. If only I could get ahold of that, truly internalize it and comprehend it, what would it change? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/11/17/this-one-thing-and-no-other/</link>
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		<title>More Easter Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What follows is something I wrote two years ago, slightly edited. Parts of reiterate my previous post, parts are new thoughts. Enjoy this rare occurrence of two posts in one day! Easter is the most joyful day of the year for me, as a Christian. It&#8217;s like knowing a secret the rest of the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/04/12/more-easter-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>He is Risen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Easter is my favorite holiday. To be perfectly honest, at Christmas or Thanksgiving or any other holiday, I would miss the trappings if they weren&#8217;t there. Important as the &#8220;reason&#8221; really is, I would not like to do without the presents and the dinner and the decorations and all that. But for me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/04/12/he-is-risen/</link>
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		<title>Who do you see? (tentative title)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lost count of the number of times I&#8217;ve been recognized by people I&#8217;ve never met! When I&#8217;m out shopping, customers where I work, and most recently, the receptionist at my eye doctor! I had never been there before last week, although my mom and several of my sisters had. I walked in and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/03/25/who-do-you-see-tentative-title/</link>
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		<title>Test Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a test post. My deepest apologies to anyone who may have seen that I updated, and is now disappointed to see that there is nothing really new.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/03/13/test-post/</link>
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		<title>One Thing, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1 Corinthians 2, Paul seems to have had the same idea that I did (although, to be fair, he probably had it first!). &#8220;And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/03/02/one-thing-part-2/</link>
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		<title>One Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John 9 begins with the story of the man born blind, whom Jesus healed with the clay He made from saliva.  The Pharisees, instead of seeing God at work in their midst, see Jesus only as one who has broken the Sabbath, and a sinner in their eyes. They bring the man who was once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/02/25/one-thing/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still alive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know you&#8217;re all worried about me since I haven&#8217;t posted in almost two months now. Saying that makes me realize just how long it has been! I do apologize&#8230; Anyway, I have a lot of thoughts bouncing around in my mind, and a few different posts that I&#8217;m working on. They&#8217;ll see the light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2009/02/18/im-still-alive/</link>
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		<title>Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is rather a departure from my usual writing style. I wouldn&#8217;t really call it poetry, but I&#8217;m not sure what to call it. Just a few of the thoughts I&#8217;ve had lately on perspective and seeing God&#8217;s plans instead of mine. It only takes a moment for eyes to be opened a blinding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elyonscircle.com/blogs/water_ouzel/2008/12/29/perspective/</link>
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