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		<title>Going Home By Another Way</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As always, the story of the Wise Ones, the Magi, who usher us into the season of Epiphany, intrigues me with its layers of images, its spare detail and its promise of Light at the end of the journey. The detail that has caught my spirit this year is the very last line in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Advent Blue 4: Longing for Light</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/12/advent-blue-4-longing-for-light/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No matter how much I can learn and practice in the dark, I long for Light to shine. Many Advents ago I went to a gathering of other in ministries of spiritual formation in the bleak midwinter. I carried with me some of the dark Advent blues concerning the direction of my ministry and its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Advent Blue 3: Longing for Joy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Blueness of this Advent leaves us longing for some Joy. And Advent 3 is Gaudete or Rejoice Sunday! It is the week we are invited to savor the singing of Mary, following her ancestor Hannah: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! I cherish these songs of our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Advent Blue 2: Longing for Comfort</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/12/advent-blue-2-longing-for-comfort/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hearts are breaking all over the world! I see them on the newscast daily, and hear them as I listen to conversations. My own heart breaks for parents, for children, for those who have been given many chances and choose to ignore them, and for those who have been given no chance at all. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Advent Blue: Week 1-Longing for God</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some worshiping communities are using blue as the color for Advent to distinguish it from the traditional purple. The Rev. Eric J. Liles of St Paul’s Episcopal Church says this: Blue represents hope. expectation and heaven…a deep, dark blue is the color that covers us in the dark, cold hours before the dawn. Thus we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Graceful Virtues: A Reflection on the Grace of Yes by Lisa M. Hendey</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/11/graceful-virtues-a-reflection-on-the-grace-of-yes-by-lisa-m-hendey/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a gift to discover a companion on the spiritual journey from a tradition different from one’s own. Lisa Hendey is a Roman Catholic; I am a Presbyterian Protestant. Yet in reading her book called The Grace of Yes, I found that there were many places where our paths were similar, if not identical. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Two Hopes for Advent: Books that Inspire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been privileged to review two very worthy and helpful books for Advent for the Patheos Book Club. I hope you find them as provocative and charming as I have. An Invitation: Taste and See by Jan Johnson The sacred anticipation of Advent and the joy of Christmastide often seem dimmed and fraught for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Invitations on the Journey: Keep Moving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Often on a journey, geographical or spiritual, I am tempted to say, “This is so beautiful; let’s just stay right here forever!” Santa Fe was one of those spots for me on this latest journey. At the top of a hill is the Museum Plaza, surrounded by striking Native American sculpture, encompassing a red and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Invitations of the Journey: Reflecting Beauty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up in my own tradition, I did not realize that Beauty was a spiritual quality. The verse in Scripture concerning beauty with which I was most familiar was in Proverbs 31, and it was interpreted negatively. Describing a capable wife, extended by my tradition to mean any woman, it concludes by saying, “Charm is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hopes for Mother and Daughters: A Reflection on Love Will Steer Me True by Jane and Ellen Knuth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Nordquist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a mother of an adult daughter who does not share my spiritual practices, I am deeply comforted and delighted to read a book, such as this, in which both mother and daughter seek to keep their love whole while diverging in their trust in and practice of the spiritual traditions in which each of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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