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	<title>Spiritual Things Matter &#187; Forgiveness</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>New Year&#8217;s Wishes For You</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2010/01/01/new-years-wishes-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish for you,
all that is good for the coming year.
Laughter and a lighter heart
if your burden has become too heavy.
Clarity of thought
if pain has drowned out a sense of balance.
Healing for that part of you that has been injured
too deeply to put into words.
Wisdom to understand the difference between true suffering
and the too often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tears</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/02/tears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tears]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare
The land of tears is a mysterious place as each shy tear droplet expresses the beauty of its pain or joy. Tears cleanse our souls and powerfully release the pressure we feel in our daily lives. Tears help us focus our vision and our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forgiveness &#8211; Your Greatest Healer</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/07/11/forgiveness-your-greatest-healer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/07/11/forgiveness-your-greatest-healer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unforgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
&#8211; Thomas A. Kempis.
Forgiveness is a gift that has been given to us freely. If we embrace this gift, our lives will forever be changed and our path will have been forever altered. If we still ourselves and enter into our own silence, we will [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Bridge Without Any Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/07/28/a-bridge-without-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/07/28/a-bridge-without-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One day I said, &#8220;I will go out and look for my enemies&#8221; and that day I found no friends.  The next day I said, &#8220;I will go and look for my friends&#8221; and that day I found no enemies.  ~Native American Proverb 
Anyone who has lived will attest to the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forgive Me</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/03/04/forgive-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/03/04/forgive-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have feared you because I have feared myself.
I have judged you because I have judged myself.
I have hurt you because I have hurt myself.
I have mistrusted you because I have mistrusted myself.
Only when I looked within my own heart
Could I begin to understand you.
Only in my brokenness
Could I begin to feel your pain.
Only in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Limited View</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/02/02/a-limited-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/02/02/a-limited-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maturity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings are very much like icebergs&#8211;we only see a small portion of them, and nothing of the hidden currents which drag them this way and that.  ~Father David McAstocker
Fr. McAstocker goes on to say:  &#8220;I fancy that we would not sit and judge our neighbor so frequently as we do, did we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Moments</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/10/11/defining-moments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/10/11/defining-moments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Betrayal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defining Moments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a defining moment in every person&#8217;s life.  Within that moment, everything that person is, shines its brightest.  ~Anonymous
There are times in life when events and circumstances seem to be larger then we are.  We often react to these times with uncertainty and fear.  If we have lived long enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value Of Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/02/19/the-value-of-forgiveness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/02/19/the-value-of-forgiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherless Daughter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.~Paul Boese
Forgiveness is a virtue that grows and expands further the more it is practiced.  It is a divine virtue that allows us to touch God Himself.  It is through forgiveness that we have the opportunity to touch a human life [...]]]></description>
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