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	<title>Spiritual Things Matter &#187; Grace</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>Know Thyself</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/12/06/know-thyself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. ~William Shakespeare
Socrates knew that self-honesty seems to be one of the most important keys for human growth when he said, &#8220;Know Thyself.&#8221;  I think about this subject often because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Comforter</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/08/07/the-comforter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing back and watching
as people come and go.
I notice on their faces
stories that have not been told.
Deep within their hearts
are words they utter not
for fear that no one would understand
but criticize their travailing heart.
Pains from the past they carry
as if just happened yesterday.
They are blinded to their own Power &#8211; within,
or perhaps, they have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace! What A Gift!</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2007/02/01/grace-what-a-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. ~Simone Weil
I brushed shoulders with a young woman today who struck me as truly beautiful. It was not so much that her physical appearance was stunning, but rather she [...]]]></description>
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