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		<title>power-trippers</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/08/21/power-trippers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennifer benson schuldt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Evans never existed. Still, he befriended 13-year-old Megan Meier through an online network. Eventually, he sent this message, “I don’t know if I want to be friends with you. . . . I hear you’re not nice to your friends.” Josh posted increasingly cruel notes until Megan committed suicide. As it turned out, “Josh” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>beyond sentimental slogans</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/08/09/beyond-sentimental-slogans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheridan voysey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=4431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a billboard company in my area that likes to post nice slogans on its signs when it doesn’t have paid clients. “Kyoto—Targets Bring Results” declares one environmentally conscious poster. “Knowledge Speaks but Wisdom Listens” reads another. “Love Nature—Love God” says a third. These fill-in billboards are always nice, sweet, and kind. But a strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cement sky</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/08/01/cement-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennifer benson schuldt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=4380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My hometown is nestled between emerald cow pastures, meandering roads, and tree-covered foothills. It’s most charming on bright, sunny days, but there aren’t many of those. The Finger Lakes region of New York State has one the highest ratios of cloud cover in America. The locals call it “cement sky.” Many of us struggle with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 19, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/07/19/july-19-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Today's Conversation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an ODJ community member: &#8220;I&#8217;ve experienced a number of unsuccessful dating relationships. Now, I&#8217;m feeling the pressure to get married from others and from within my own heart. What should I do?&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>disappointed</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/07/17/disappointed-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina franklin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=4327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scanning my e-mail inbox, I stopped in excitement when I saw a particular name. As I opened the e-mail, I held my breath in anticipation of what I would see. Waiting to hear about a manuscript I had sent in, I read through the e-mail quickly looking for the publisher’s response. Disappointment flooded my thoughts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>worn out?</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/06/28/worn-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff olson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=4186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m just so tired.” It’s a common phrase that I’ve heard from people in my counseling office over the years. Sometimes they say the words to play the “pity me” card. Others are unknowingly lying to themselves— falling deeper into discouragement and depression. But in many cases, they’re voicing a legitimate cry of an exhausted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>expansion</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/06/16/expansion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/06/16/expansion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina franklin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=4126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking out my back picture window, the normally peaceful view had become a bit of a wasteland.  Scraps from our now nonexistent deck lay stacked against the fence, twisted sprinkler pipes poked out at varied angles from the red clay, and the once green grass now bore the violent claw marks from a backhoe. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s unobstructed view</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/06/01/gods-unobtructed-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roxanne robbins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Sunday I drive an overloaded car full of former street kids to church. While I try to navigate the crazy Kampala roads, the boys are constantly demanding my attention. “Look over there, Auntie Rox!” one shouts, “That’s where we used to find scrap to sell.” “See those men?” adds another. “They beat me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>less than 1 percent</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/05/06/less-than-1-percent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/05/06/less-than-1-percent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 05:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom felten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=3903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie Rudy tells the true tale of Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, a smallish, walk-on (nonscholarship) player who tried to make the powerhouse University of Notre Dame’s football team. He didn’t have the size. He didn’t have the athleticism. But he had the heart to make the team and even went on to play in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an indifferent spouse</title>
		<link>http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2010/04/19/an-indifferent-spouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheridan voysey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=3779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the film The Painted Veil, an unhappily married couple—Walter and Kitty Fane—trek into China’s rural Guangxi Province where cholera is decimating the locals. Their visit is hardly altruistic. Walter has caught Kitty in an affair and this trip is her punishment. While Walter, a bacteriologist, fights the disease, Kitty offers her services to the [...]]]></description>
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