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		<title>Surprising Spirit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pentecost came this Sunday! I have been eager for its celebration this year, but I was finding few resources in poetry and picture that captured what to me was the most intriguing and hopeful gift that the Spirit brings&#8211;the element of Surprise. Our preacher began her sermon Sunday, and I was delighted to hear her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace and Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace happens, as surely as the other things that happen.The world is full of reminders of the Grace of the Holy, despite and alongside the illness and disorder of much of the created and human-made world. So today I celebrate a gift of Grace in my life&#8211;unmerited (as the Calvinists are fond of saying), unexpected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastertide III-V: Going Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The post-Easter stories of the gospels are about moving out. Jesus tells his loved ones and to followers that they need to get going&#8230;to tell, to be, to share, to serve. And they do, they spread out all over the world! I watched in horror and then in gratitude this week after the bombs exploded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastertide II: What is Blooming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My garden is a riot of color! My roses are blooming and blossoming in celebration of the Spring that has sprung! How fitting for the spiritual practice in Eastertide&#8211;to notice and to celebrate new life that is appearing everywhere. I was treated to a trip up the coast this past weekend, and even there in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastertide: Slow Turn</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/04/eastertide-slow-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been more than ready for Easter to blossom this year. The Lenten days were full of challenge and struggle, not so much for me, as for many people I love, to whom I am committed. My list of  daily prayers seemed to lengthen exponentially every day. So I take heart from those around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Week: Staying Empty</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/03/holy-week-staying-empty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some closets are rearranged with things easier to find. Some drawers have order so that retrieving something I need is not like a dumpster dive. All this clearing out for Lent has had its effect in me and in my abiding place. And I have felt the necessity of that continuing process of clearing out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent 5  Hanging On</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/03/lent-5-hanging-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parable had been unfolding in my front yard as I have been blogging this Lent. My liquid amber tree, never quite in sync with the other trees in the neighborhood, began shedding its leaves right after Christmas in lesser and greater amounts. As of the beginning of Lent, all the old leaves are gone, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent 4: Paying Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/03/lent-4-paying-attention-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What all this clearing and cleaning and sorting of spaces during Lent is doing is teaching me something about what kind of consumer I am: an unconscious one! I find myself asking how is it possible to have three of the same oversize bottle of the same vitamin supplement, all partially used, two of which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent 3 Sorting Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/03/lent-3-sorting-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clearing out of spaces continues this third week of Lent. It continues to be a spiritual discipline; it does not feel like accomplishment. And it continues to prompt interior reflection on what I have allowed to pile up in my spirit. What takes me by surprise from time to time is the power of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent 2: Coming Clean</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2013/02/lent-2-coming-clean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Nordquist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clearing out of my spaces for Lent continues, and as it does, the realization that moth and rust have corrupted some things, dirt and grime have filtered in elsewhere, and some things need to go immediately to the washing machine, becomes irrefutable. Clearing out means tackling the dirt. It amazes me, (not amuses me), [...]]]></description>
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