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		<title>Will You Let Me Care For You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lectio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a journal keeper. I’m so grateful that our editor at Conversations invited us to use lectio and listen for God regarding our past year. Frankly, I had never considered the idea. Lectio has traditionally four phases: lectio (reading), meditatio (meditation), oratio (prayer), and contemplatio (contemplation or resting). The first phase, lectio is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain, Pain, Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently Googled the trailer from the Julia Roberts movie “Eat, Pray, Love.” Julia’ s character had gone into her bathroom in the middle of the night, shut the door and prayed the only way she knew how. She said prayer was so remote to her that she started to say “Hello God I’m a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Assets In The Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sermons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I attended the Apprentice Institute held in the booming metropolis of Wichita, Kansas. One of the keynote speakers is a dear friend of mine, Mindy Caliguire. Her presentation was entitled “Hounded by Heaven Living into Personal Transformation”. I got settled into my seat as Mindy began her presentation. She’s a gifted speaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retreating to Be, See and Hear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retreats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am on retreat even as I type this. Over the years I have found that I need to pull back from the maddening that is sometimes my life. I have found that retreats have given me an opportunity to schedule time alone to regain my equilibrium. Retreats help me align myself to the presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Without The Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desert Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The time of “really going thru”, feeling isolated from God, from the familiar comforts of life—whether it be a state of contentment or familiarity of a “ normal” routine—the  desert time is often as though you’ve turned off onto a road that you’ve never encountered. Now all the senses are on alert and there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sea of Doing Too Much</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/07/the-sea-of-doing-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am learning that I am probably headed away from God when I am not taking care of my “SELF&#8221;. I met with my therapist last week. I’m officially living in the “m” word (menopause!) and I am grateful for her stabilizing influence on this sea of “change”. Now, I’m not even sure what made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been exercising my creative side and I have been amazed at what my art has been revealing to me about me. Now, I’m not trained in art but I’m involved with The Art Project Houston and we are bringing the power of creativity to the homeless community in our city. So I’m along for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Pages Of A Magazine&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 11:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have always believed that challenged relationships are usually lessons of some kind. I had a little time and picked up my “O” magazine for a little diversion. This particular issue was devoted to “Inspiring the Best in You”. I leisurely turned pages, having prayed and cried out to God for wisdom. I just couldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examen and Children</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/02/examen-and-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the practices that I remember sharing with our daughters was the practice of the examen. The Ignatian examen invites you to reflect on your day—not to be confused with the examination of conscience—and it gives you the ability to identify feelings that all too often get stuffed after a long day of interacting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent Is About Letting Go</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/03/lent-is-about-letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a retreat shortly after I had just been diagnosed with cancer in my right kidney. When I asked God what needed healing the most he said, “Let go of your need to control.” My friend D.C. sent a text message to me early on in the retreat. Why I even checked the phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entering New Years With The Monks</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/12/2600/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/12/2600/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This holiday season I decided to move into the New Year in a more contemplative fashion. While those around me are discussing new years resolutions and such I have decided to pray my way into the days post Christmas. I attended a retreat several months back were we prayed the liturgy of the hours. Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Eat, Pray, Love&#8221; or Lectio?</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/11/eat-pray-love-or-lectio/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/11/eat-pray-love-or-lectio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the incredible popularity of the book (and now the movie) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, many would-be prayer dropouts are seeking an experience of God. In their dialogue in the most recent issue of Conversations, Dr. David Benner and Dr. Gary Moon offer a conversation around Benner’s book “Opening to God” that would have saved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ain&#8217;t Nothing Like The Real Thing</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2009/11/aint-nothing-like-the-real-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://conversationsjournal.com/2009/11/aint-nothing-like-the-real-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juanita Campbell Rasmus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Honesty About the Journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 7.2 Fall / Winter 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 7.2 Fall 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My husband Rudy says that he thinks I was a Christian in utero. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I do know that all of my life I believed in the power of God. When I was a little girl at my grandmother’s house, she would tuck us in at night in [...]]]></description>
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