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		<title>Got to God Like a Cigarette: Unconventional Spiritual Advice From a Surprised</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5:1 Spring 2007]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damon was a sharply dressed man in his late twenties with a look of desperation. I noticed him fidget as he stood waiting in a line of people who had just heard me speak. He asked me for prayer and an appointment to meet to talk about his life and the message I gave, “Slowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Transforming Thorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 9.2 Fall/Winter 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The day chronic pain entered my life has now taken an unwelcome and unwanted place in my memory alongside happiest day: my wedding day, and the birthdays of my children. The 24 hours before it came would be the last pain-free day of my (basically) comfortable 45 years and the beginning of a new life for me. A violent trespasser, its tortuous presence inhabiting my body, would always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often quoted a priest who said that his daily experience with God more often than not is “like being with a stranger in a very dark room and the only way you know they are there is because they occasionally clear their throat”. I know this runs contrary to much of what we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Ways With My Wandering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.” That old hymn expresses my desire for always being attentive to my Father, His Son and Spirit—who I also am consistently wandering away from. Yet they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home With A View</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/06/home-with-a-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My rural home’s screened in porch, two stories up and in view of my own private nature preserve, has been a sanctuary for me where God has met me so often that it formed within me the same kind of space inside my heart. We might have to downsize in a move this year, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book That Found Me Just In Time</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/05/a-book-that-found-me-just-in-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 11:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was given the gift of a small stick of dynamite for the soul. A Quaker pastor who wanted to bless me at a retreat l led for their annual pastor/spouse retreat gave me The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation by Thomas Keating and bless me it did—just in time for my current life journey! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasting Is About Feasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fasting is all about feasting. That thought was new to me.  It helps with how I enter into practices of the Lent season.  It isn’t what I give up that matters (although I always do give up something) as much as what I indulge in that makes Lent meaningful. Lent is not so much about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Re-Reading</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2011/01/the-power-of-re-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One evening over this past holiday season, my kids and I were trying to decide which movie to go see.  I had been to everything I had wanted to see and so had they.  Since they have no problem seeing movies over and over they went to the closet for an old favorite. “Oh, no,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Coming</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/12/the-third-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advent has come to have new meaning for me because of two little known German pastors, Arnold Blumhardt and his son, Christoph, and their recovery for the church of what it means to biblically “wait” on the Lord, what they termed, “waiting and hastening”, partnering with God in prayerful action. In my own contemplation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Book</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/12/the-big-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I listened to a radio program that made me stop in my driveway and keep the radio on—and so long that my wife came out to see what might be wrong. The interview was with an employee of Hazelden, the most famous of Minnesota’s many drug and chemical treatment centers (a sidenote: Minnesota [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting My Bible Back</title>
		<link>http://conversationsjournal.com/2010/04/getting-my-bible-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 8.1 Spring / Summer 2010]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a divine coincidence—one of those experiences in life that make you wonder if God likes to play pranks on his children, not to tease us, but to surprise and encourage us with his mysterious workings behind the scenes of our lives. I received a phone call from a stranger who lived not far [...]]]></description>
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