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	<title>Spiritual Things Matter &#187; Fear</title>
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	<description>"He who learns must suffer.  And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the   heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon</description>
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		<title>The Silence Of Another</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/20/the-silence-of-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, that silence! That which so intensifies my pain.
Silence drives me to search for a voice that brings comforting reassurance and understanding to a heart that cannot speak. A voice of one who knows the pain of too much love and too much brokenness. A voice of one who understands the human heart with all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Past Disappointment</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/14/moving-passed-disappointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disappointment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insecurities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in the present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Understanding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Disappointment often lowers our unseen posture. We feel heavier and a sense of sadness that something we had relied upon, something we had trusted in, or someone we needed, did not come through for us. Perhaps we even feel embarrassed that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Creative Expressions</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/01/25/creative-expressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orphanage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wholeness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao Tzu
I read a wonderful essay that Dr. Sanity wrote which gave me so much to think about.  If you would like, you can read it in its entirety.  She speaks of the defense strategies that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty: Healing Is Possible</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/10/16/poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/10/16/poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aloneness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tears]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde
Kal, one of my blogger friends focused his attention today on Blog Action Day and their theme for this year is Poverty.   Thanks for posting on this, Kal!
I looked at their site, and I think it is truly a wonderful effort that so many have made [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Twists And Turns Of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/08/24/twists-and-turns-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/08/24/twists-and-turns-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entanglements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[


We are displayed with such beauty
as we begin this life.
Pain and wounds have not yet mangled
the beginning of our time.
The innocence of existence
shines through so pure
with a display of vibrant colors
flickering with a dance of passion
for life that is brand new.
After a time, though,
the twists and turns begin
and we become unrecognizable,
through strange entanglements.
Entwined and knotted with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Easter Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/03/22/easter-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/03/22/easter-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lonliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Love is the subtlest force in the world.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

This time of the year is especially contemplative as many will honor Easter. Our churches will be filled with worshipers as they sing their beautiful songs and hymns in perhaps even greater conviction and love they have for God. I too lose myself in beautiful [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Journey of the Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/07/15/journey-of-the-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/07/15/journey-of-the-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aloneness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orphanage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Honor the moment of suffering for in such is the kernel of knowledge.  Turn inward for in the stillness will be your strength.  ~Diane Ethridge
From the very beginning of life, a journey begins in our hearts that will eventually find either a peaceful ending or one of sadness and regret.  How enlightening [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Choice to be Happy</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/06/18/the-choice-to-be-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/06/18/the-choice-to-be-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain's Idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Potts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is not God&#8217;s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. ~ Immanuel Kant
Ah, what a breath of fresh air this young man&#8217;s singing was to my heart. As I sat and watched Paul Potts sing, I realized that he embodied what my continuous growing belief-system is: we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Never Alone</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/05/03/never-alone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/05/03/never-alone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Possibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Man&#8217;s loneliness is but his fear of life. ~ Eugene O&#8217; Neil
Not too long ago, I read an article written by a man that expressed how he viewed the interactions of people. At the end, he concluded that every person cares only for himself or herself. The writer went on to say that no one [...]]]></description>
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