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		<title>Live for the Dash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our days are numbered. How will we live them out?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don’t Waste Your Trial: 6 Truths That Can Change Your Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eventually, it happens. And yes, it will come your way.  You can’t really plan for it, because it sneaks up in the middle of the night, or it raids your happiest moments in life, or destroys the ending to the perfect story. If you’re human, you will have some sort of trial come your way. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building a legacy that lasts &#8211; Stories from Central Asia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[apples]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“We want to plant big trees to line our village, and to have it full of flowers. I want our village to prosper, to bloom. That’s my dream for where we live, to be the best, to be full of beauty.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reclaiming the Human Story of the Apple Tree</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is a key toward restoring dignity. Generations are benefiting from this work.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Telling Stories Needs to be Part of Your Workplace</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A tale can make the meticulous easy. That’s why Aesop was able to teach children deep truths. That’s why Jesus spoke of eternity in simple parables.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Fear that Holds us Back</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fear is an intrinsic part of the human experience. With over two thousand known phobias, from the peculiar (Novercaphobia, the fear of your stepmother) to the more common (Claustrophobia, the fear of confined spaces), it seems there’s a name for nearly every fear we can imagine. Yet, when we look at the fears of babies, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building up Lives, by Breaking Down Mattresses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[go find good]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A unique organization recycles mattresses otherwise destined for the landfill. But the man behind the operation not only breaks down mattresses, but builds up lives of felons and other hard-to-employ individuals. "We try to fill our men with hope. We want to give them a chance to reformat their families, bodies, and responsibilities"]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don’t miss this moment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think it’s called “commiserating” I was in the stands along with other long-suffering parents. We were all there for a T-Ball game with kids just a little young for Little League. It’s a chance for them to get out, run around, and get dirty. But for the parents, you know the drill. It’s kind [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christian teaching models civility during raucous times</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Civil war is coming if we don’t act to stop it. We can change course and write our own history or stumble ahead and repeat it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>All the lonely people</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This isolation has led to untold problems. We have built fences around our castles, avoiding any neighborly contact with the push of a garage door opener. We enter these castles eating quick heat dinners and hovering over computer screens without connection to our fellow man.]]></description>
		
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