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		<title>Life in Proximity</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2014/12/life-in-proximity-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love baptism Sundays. I feel a range of emotions as I watch people being baptized – often reflecting my own journey to faith and consequential baptism and also celebrating those who are publicly professing their faith in Christ and welcoming them into the family of God. It doesn’t matter if I know the person [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious Scars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have scars all over my body. There’s the zipper-like scar on the right side of my stomach from the time my appendix ruptured. There’s the smile-shaped scar between my two hipbones from my hysterectomy when I was twenty-nine, and there’s the small dotted scars around my belly button that commemorate my journey towards the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Is Great Like That</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2014/05/grace-is-great-like-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many days I find myself praying, “Jesus, remember your promise. Please come back for your people.” The brokenness of the world, the struggles and sorrows of those I know and love, and the sin that engulfs and threatens to choke the life out of God’s children, including me, pricks my heart like a thousand tiny [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Thus far the Lord has helped us</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2014/04/thus-far-the-lord-has-helped-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is hard. Some days are even faith-shaking. I have friends who have been diagnosed with cancer; friends who have lost children; friends who are unable to have children; friends in full-time ministry who daily bear the burdens of others; friends who are suffering under the weight of debilitating sin-struggles. If I did not believe [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaping Our Bodies</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2013/01/shaping-our-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase “shaping our bodies” likely conjures up images of exercise, diet, discipline, weight lifting, and the like. But very few of us likely think of the tongue and its power to shape our bodies. The more I study the issue of body image, the more I listen to women talk about their bodies, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hating Our Bodies</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2012/12/hating-our-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trapped. Disgusted. Hate. Discouraged. Frustrated. Frumpy. These are all words women have used in a recent survey to describe how they feel about their bodies. And, if I am honest, it’s often how I feel about my own as well. I will be forty years old in February, and most of those years I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This Moment Is About Not Wavering</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2012/12/this-moment-is-about-not-wavering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much in life where the victory comes later. This moment is about not wavering. &#8211; Matt Williams, Grace Church Greenville SC My heart is swollen with emotion. My eyes threaten release, but yet the tears just won’t flow. I feel an odd mix of worship, sadness, joy, weariness, and hope bubbling beneath [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Named and Kept</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2012/09/named-and-kept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chrystie Cole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be an orphan?  Orphans are often among the most vulnerable of the world’s population.  Some have been abandoned by those who were supposed to protect them.  Some have been abused by the ones who were supposed to love them.  Some scavenge daily to provide [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;then we will be like Him</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2012/06/then-we-will-be-like-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chrystie Cole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When will I finally get it right?</title>
		<link>http://chrystiecole.com/2012/06/when-will-i-finally-get-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chrystie Cole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an opportunity to speak to a group of single women from our church on sexuality, dating, men and women, etc. During a time of Q&#38;A, one of the ladies asked the panel to share stories of our experiences with meeting and dating our husbands as a source of encouragement to them. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
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