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		<title>secular state</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/05/14/secular-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chimera is a bizarre-looking character found in Greek mythology. The fire-breathing female is composed from the parts of a lion, goat, and serpent. Recently, a religious leader used the term chimera to describe the philosophy of education in his native Sweden. The highly secular country has told all its schools—including Christian ones—that they must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>letting go</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/05/02/letting-go-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=10168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During a recent 3-week stay in the hospital, I met Kathy. She shared her grave medical condition and her strong faith—an unflinching belief in Jesus. She loved Him and trusted Him, but she also knew she was heading home to hospice care. Her days on earth were counting down. As my wife and I talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bring it</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/04/22/bring-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[christian living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily devotional]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=10128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Isaiah 59 the prophet was bringing it! He was not holding back. All around him, he saw people who were not living in truth (Isaiah 59:15). There was a decided lack of justice and righteousness in his world. Just like you and me, he longed for truth to save the day. Perhaps unlike us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sydnie &amp; me</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/04/09/sydnie-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[christian living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily devotional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discouragement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[God's guidance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=10087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I went through a bone marrow transplant (BMT). By God’s grace, I didn’t go it alone. Family and friends walked with me through the procedure and subsequent months of recovery. But there was someone else who shared the journey—Sydnie. This precious little girl, a daughter of friends of ours, needed to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gator aid</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/03/30/gator-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[helping others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trusting God]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=10041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Alexis Dunbar returned home, she received a huge surprise. A living, breathing alligator was lurking in her guest bedroom! The 6-foot gator had crawled out of a pond in her backyard and somehow squeezed through a small, swinging door used by Alexis’ cats. Wildlife crews trapped the wounded reptile in a bathroom and subsequently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why faith?</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/03/19/why-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=10007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an interview, pop music star Katy Perry stated that she wasn’t thrilled with her strict religious upbringing. “I didn’t have a childhood,” she lamented. “I’ve always been the kid who’s asked ‘Why?’ In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. But I was always like . . . why? At this point, I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>new way of talking</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/03/08/new-way-of-talking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/03/08/new-way-of-talking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[christian living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=9973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a woman had oral surgery and awoke from the procedure with one alteration she wasn’t expecting. The work on her mouth went well, but the words that came out of her mouth sounded strange. Her Northwestern US tone had been replaced by an accent straight out of Transylvania. Her condition? Foreign accent syndrome—a neurological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>love and hate</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/02/26/love-and-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/02/26/love-and-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=9870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s definitely a fine line between love and hate. I read of a wife who was so fed up with her husband’s cheating that she said, “I didn’t want to divorce [him], but I wanted him to die.” The adulterous husband said of his bride: “I didn’t love her. I wanted a divorce.” A disturbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>diet progress</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/02/17/diet-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=9846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After recent surgery, I spent a week in a hospital room doing the recovery thing. Due to the site of my surgical procedure (the stomach), I was placed on a step-by-step diet plan. First came the clear liquids diet that I was on for several days. It featured jello, broths, and juices. Then came the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>age-old question</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2012/02/07/age-old-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=9809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last spring, two 48-year-old twin brothers chose not to help their mother after she fell and hurt herself. The duo simply left the injured woman in the entryway of the house they shared with her. Police were contacted after the mother hadn’t been seen by friends for several weeks. They found her body in the [...]]]></description>
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