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		<title>New Stuff</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I&#8217;ve had way too many ideas in my head over the past couple of weeks so I need to attempt to organize them and get them out. This jumbling of ideas started last Monday. The Sunday before was my first time singing with the Parish Choir. That started my week in between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=142&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first Sunday I sang with the Parish Choir at St. Mark&#8217;s. It was an interesting experience for me and something new so I feel the inclination to document my internal musings about this experience. First, I have to say that Angela and I feel super blessed to have been led to St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=140&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mind is bombarded by many ideas throughout my daily life. However, there is one with which I was presented a couple of weeks ago and I don&#8217;t want to forget it. A few days after I blogged about the warm feeling I would feel as a child and sometimes throughout my adulthood, I heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=135&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks I had some experiences that made me feel as if I learned some about the connections between what goes on in my intellect and what I feel in my heart. This is all within the context of Lent so I wanted to describe it now before I forget the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=127&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lent 2011: Change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far this year&#8217;s Lenten journey has been particularly challenging and yet incredibly meaningful.  I am thankful that a few months ago we joined the parish of St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal downtown.  The people are warm and welcoming.  The sermons, themes, and messages we are receiving there are incredibly appropriate and meaningful in our lives.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=128&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. I thought I would take the time to write about something I have noticed in my oldest son. It started several months ago when he was still 3 years old. I was eating dinner with some of my extended family when my grandmother told me that she asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=122&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today is the first workday of the new year for me. So far it&#8217;s not too bad. Although my alarm didn&#8217;t go off. Thankfully I woke up about 15 minutes after it was supposed to go off and decided to roll over and check the time. I had hoped to get up and do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=120&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 2, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I like writing as soon as I wake up in the morning, I wasn&#8217;t able to do that today. So I will have to make my current entry something with goals but also accomplishments for the day since the day is half way over. One goal I had today was to go running. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=118&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I didn&#8217;t do quite as well as what I set out to do at the beginning of today but still I made progress. We walked to my mom&#8217;s, ate breakfast, and walked home with the boys and the large basketball hoop and stand that my mom got the boys for Christmas. We put the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=115&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my specific New Year&#8217;s resolutions is to take 5 to 30 minutes a day to blog. The daily blog topic can vary. But overall I hope it will capture daily events in my life as well as formulate plans for positive action and hold me accountable for goals that I set throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oursimplegifts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7847513&amp;post=111&amp;subd=oursimplegifts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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