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	<title>Spiritual Things Matter &#187; Pain</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>Into A New Realm</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2010/07/05/into-a-new-realm-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear the fluttering wings of the dove
It has landed in a new place now.
Seeing, perhaps, the entire story
From far above that earth-bound house.
A gentle breeze has come to settle
Bringing with it sweet fragrance from above.
Tears of love can flow freely now -
Making tender the ground upon which we walk.
A gift it was to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realization</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/04/19/realization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/04/19/realization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K.Alan Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
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Photograph by: K. Alan Lewis
 
Genlty, I smile as I realize
The pangs of my pain
The wounds of my sufferings
Are transformed into
A tranquil river of love.
~Viola Jaynes
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		<title>An Encounter With Love</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/27/an-encounter-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augsburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orphanage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teacher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes man&#8217;s strange and difficult situations acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life&#8217;s purpose. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
All around the globe, Valentine&#8217;s Day was celebrated this month as an acknowledgement of that special someone in our lives. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Past Disappointment</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/14/moving-passed-disappointment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/14/moving-passed-disappointment/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Rare Encounters</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/03/rare-encounters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/02/03/rare-encounters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broken Hearted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Photograph by: Sandy Carlson
Quite suddenly there comes a time
When someone enters our life
Who so changes all that we are.
They invade our mind, our thoughts;
They find a direct path,
Piercing with such precision
Into the very center of us.
It is frightening
As the heart throbs with such passion.
Frightening,
As the mind races with unending longing.
Maddening, so maddening
As all else fades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tumor</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/08/07/the-tumor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Rex Marco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Steve Clouthier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kinesilogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kinesiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osteoid Osteoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To feel keenly the poetry of morning&#8217;s roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel
A few months prior to the end of my son&#8217;s Kindergarten year, he began to wake up with pain in his legs.  My first reaction was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does It Serve Us Well?</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/06/20/does-it-serve-us-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/06/20/does-it-serve-us-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Acceptance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.  ~Charles Langbridge Morgan
From early on, we have certain ideals about the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain And Suffering</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/06/04/pain-and-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/06/04/pain-and-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kahlil Gibran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lonliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. Scott Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus
Due to the recent loss in our family, I have contemplated once more the meaning of pain and suffering that we as humans so often experience.  No one wants to suffer and none of us want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing Death</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/05/16/embracing-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/05/16/embracing-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sorrow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~ John Taylor
Yesterday, we had a death in our family.  It was something that happened so fast that everyone is still in a state of shock and bewilderment.  It is one of those events where [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dear Brave Soul, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/05/08/dear-brave-soul-happy-mothers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/05/08/dear-brave-soul-happy-mothers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cellar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crimes against Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Fritzl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Fritzl case]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Mother&#8217;s Day, the one person that comes to mind who has inspired me to become an even better mother is, Elisabeth Fritzl. This courageous Austrian woman has astonished so many of us with her efforts to give her children some sense of normalcy in an incredible abnormal environment. Her mother&#8217;s heart gave and kept [...]]]></description>
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