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	<title>Longing for a Holiday at Sea</title>
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		<title>Why Am I Contentious? (Why Am I a Nag?)</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/why-am-i-contentious-why-am-i-a-nag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll start by introducing the word &#8220;nag&#8221; instead of &#8220;contentious.&#8221; It&#8217;s easier to type.  
So, why am I contentions, er, a nag (see a definition in The Vexing and Contentious Woman )? 
I nag to control my circumstances.
And so do you.
(If you don&#8217;t nag, you can probably identify other ways that you control people and situations).
Why am I a nag?  I nag so that other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1184&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vexing and Contentious Woman</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-vexing-and-contentious-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here I go: describing what most women devolve to when they aren&#8217;t being &#8220;gentle and quiet&#8221; (see an interpretation of that onerous phrase in A Phrase That Makes Me Gag: Gentle and Quiet Spirit ).
At the NextStep conference I attended (discussed here: The Journey to My Holiday ) and again on a CD, Larry and Rachel Crabb both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1146&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Gifts Like These, Who Needs Enemies?</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/with-gifts-like-these-who-needs-enemies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will soon write a post about the opposite of gentle and quiet (vexing and contentious, if you must know&#8230; for more about gentle and quiet, see A Phrase That Makes Me Gag: Gentle and Quiet Spirit ),  but I just wrote a devotion for my church that I thought possibly worth posting.
Whether or not it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1128&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Phrase That Makes Me Gag: Gentle and Quiet Spirit</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-true-christian-woman-a-gentle-and-quiet-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you gag at that phrase &#8220;gentle and quiet&#8221; spirit, then we are on the same page. If a glance at a Bible study on gentle and quiet makes you want to run for the hills, so do I.
I think that most Christian women carry around a definition of the phrase &#8220;gentle and quiet&#8221; that does not necessarily reflect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1110&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dove and the Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-dove-and-the-pigeon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog (The Journey to My Holiday ), I promised to write about several things that God appears to be teaching me during this season of my journey.
Even though I still struggle with doubts and distance,  it seems that God is up to something in my life.
I hope so.
During the NextStep school I attended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1081&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Journey to My Holiday</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-journey-to-my-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I am about to take a detour to discuss the positive things that appear to be happening on my journey to find that Holiday at Sea.
Bet you can&#8217;t wait&#8230;
At the end of August, I attended a week-long seminar/school called NextStep. This course follows Larry Crabb&#8217;s School of Spiritual Direction (which teaches how to have spiritually forming conversations). The second course helps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1061&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Storing Up Thanks</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/storing-up-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend emailed this story to me a few days ago.  I usually ignore these sort of sicky-sweet email offerings.
But I actually read this one.  I needed to be jolted out of my whiny-hood.
This story helped: 
 A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o&#8217;clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1034&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assailed by Doubts and Distance</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/assailed-by-doubts-and-distance/</link>
		<comments>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/assailed-by-doubts-and-distance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago May, I hit my first real patch of doubt after more than 35 years of being a Christian. It was a scary time and I wrote several posts about doubt, starting with Doubting at Last.
I pulled out of that phase sometime later in the year, only to be hit last spring with a distance from God and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=1006&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Holiday</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/back-from-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah.  Well, I took some time off.  Had a bit of a blogging holiday.
Haven&#8217;t been posting or reading (sorry, friends).
I thought to myself, &#8220;Why not? Why have I eschewed this most noble activity?&#8221;
I&#8217;ll tell you why.
Life didn&#8217;t suck this summer. I actually had fun.
I realize in retrospect that most of my blog posts starting in late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=985&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Kitchen Saga</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/our-kitchen-saga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February I discussed how a single overflowing toilet did amazing damage to our home (How Bad Can it Get?? Apparently Worse… ).  Here&#8217;s a pictorial history of the Kitchen Saga (and one reason I&#8217;ve not been blogging very much lately!):




 

 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 

So, our kitchen is done (less light rail, still to be installed). We added some neat features that make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=927&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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