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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/2012/01/01/new-years-wishes-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Years wishes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Rising Blogger]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scent of the Night</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2011/05/16/the-scent-of-the-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthbound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imaginatin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limitless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Possibilities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[~Anjo passante I sit outside in my swing for a while And smell the scent of the night. It&#8217;s dark, so dark, I can not see So I look up to the twinkling sky. I close my eyes in gratitude For the limitless space out there; Realizing again just how familiar it is - Boundless [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2010/07/05/into-a-new-realm-3/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Hushed Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2010/03/01/your-hushed-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brokeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Your hushed silence I kneel quietly in Your holy presence. Please bent Your ear to my heart That I may give all that is contained therein, Into Your private and loving care. Your hushed silence teaches me to be still. I find a space of complete peace. All that seems heavy bows its knees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wounded Mortality</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/12/27/wounded-mortality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/12/27/wounded-mortality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wounds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photograph by: K. Alan Lewis Men walk proudly upon this earth Some appear like gods to smaller men. Confidence cloaks something deeper still Not seen at all upon their faces of pretense. In the quiet of each solitary house A dimly burning candle guides one deep within. There one finds a wound so deep All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Solitude</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/11/20/sacred-solitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/11/20/sacred-solitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solitude]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photograph by: K. Alan Lewis Sacred Solitude Oh sacred solitude - I return to be in your quiet presence. You shelter my privacy, Within your bosom you embrace me - I feel safe and all together at home. Pensively I linger for a long time, Allowing my thoughts to roam freely. The clanking noisiness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Rejection</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/11/12/fear-of-rejection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/11/12/fear-of-rejection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/?p=1040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When one finally accepts themselves exactly as they are, then and only then, will fear of rejection disappear. ~Viola Jaynes Rejection is one of those hurdles that everyone will encounter at some point in their life.  It is an illusion that one must learn to use to their advantage in order to grow and learn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Courage to Discover Self</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/10/14/the-courage-to-discover-self/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/10/14/the-courage-to-discover-self/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Viola Jaynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Potentials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Maturity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wholeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/?p=1004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it. ~Lord Chesterfield The older I become, the more I realize what is meant when I hear people say that youth is wasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence Of Another</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/20/the-silence-of-another/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/20/the-silence-of-another/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejection]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tears</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/02/tears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2009/09/02/tears/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Understanding]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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