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	<title>A New Leaf Emerging</title>
	<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>a journey through the life of resurrection</description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Sojourners Daily Verse and Voice for this insight today:
&#8220;The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we as Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=145&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We lack a holy rage &#8211; The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets… a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world… To rage when little children must die of hunger when the tables of the rich are sagging with food… To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=140&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/madness/</link>
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		<title>Navel Gazing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been struggling to put into words the things that have been gnawing at the back of my mind, and bothering me.  I find myself wrestling with pride, with arrogance, with self-entitlement and all of the attitudes that come with them.
There are things I feel strongly called to do, beliefs to which I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=138&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/navel-gazing/</link>
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		<title>Food for Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time we sit at a table &#8230; to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
- Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American Farm Worker and civil rights activist
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		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/food-for-thought/</link>
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		<title>Milestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks one of the happiest days of my short lived life thus far. 5 years ago today, I stood before a gathering of people I very much love, who&#8217;d cared for me over the years, supported my personal and spiritual growth. I&#8217;d just walked the aisle with my father, who from my infancy, had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=134&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/milestones/</link>
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		<title>On Waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thought lately on the subject of patience and waiting. I&#8217;m an impulsive person by nature and work hard against the pull to do things now, to have things now, to want change NOW. This can come out in my frustrations with finances at home, with wanting material blessings, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=132&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/on-waiting/</link>
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		<title>Jumping Ship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am exhausted by labels. I am exhausted by categories, by worldviews and clashing worldviews.  I am exhausted by the need for debate for endless arguments for intolerance of tolerance of intolerance.   I want so much for my beliefs for my walk with Christ to be nothing more than my walk with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=129&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/jumping-ship/</link>
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		<title>Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hungry,
And you formed a humanities group to discuss my hunger.
I was imprisoned,
And you crept off quietly to your chapel and prayed for my release.
I was naked,
And in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.
I was sick,
And you knelt and thanked God for your health.
I was homeless,
And you preached a sermon on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=115&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/quote-2/</link>
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		<title>I LOVE TRAFFIC and other stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my sister and I were in Romania two years ago we had a running joke about how much I (we) LOVE TRAFFIC!!!  Bucharest is filled with traffic. In the communist era there were quotas on cars and folks would sign up years in advance before being allowed a car. Now in the new Romania [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=122&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/i-love-traffic-and-other-stories/</link>
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		<title>Frustrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been very frustrated with labels. I cringe when I hear the word &#8220;Christian&#8221; even though it&#8217;s a label I bear. Perhaps it&#8217;s what the label has come to represent, or what the label is assumed to evidence. I find, more often than not, the label to be lacking. So often, I encounter people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=anewleafemerging.wordpress.com&blog=4875605&post=119&subd=anewleafemerging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://anewleafemerging.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/frustrations/</link>
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