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		<title>The True Christian Woman: A 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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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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>Belated Request for Prayer</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/belated-request-for-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/belated-request-for-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lost my job, one of my kind readers (Christov_Tenn) suggested I could always get a job at the Department of Children&#8217;s Services.
Well, that sounded like a perfect job NOT for me, but for my in-the-desert-out-of-work-for-five-years pastor husband who just happens to have a Master&#8217;s in Psych, a certificate in Marriage and Family counseling, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=971&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>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>More Dusky Hour Reflections&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/more-dusky-hour-reflections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post (My Dusky Hour of the Soul), I discussed some passages from Tim Farrington&#8217;s A Hell of Mercy.
I’d like to share another here, a passage that really resonated with me in this time of wondering and waiting…
 What the dark night shows us, through the intensely resisted revelation of our spiritual bankruptcy, is that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=899&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Dusky Hour of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/my-dusky-hour-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holiday Longing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My husband recently listened to St. John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul on his iPod.
After hearing the description of this phase of spiritual growth, I’m not sure I can claim to be passing through the Dark Night. But what about the Dusky Hour?
Since I lost my job, I’ve not posted for two reasons:

I’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.wordpress.com&blog=4288436&post=880&subd=holidaylonging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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