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	<title>Voices of Women of Spirit and Faith</title>
	
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		<title>Mother-Work: How women give and receive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As custodians of life, our families, our communities, the earth, we know the awe of responsibility. But how do we listen to the real need – both in ourselves and in life? For many years I have listened to women tell stories about their lives. Women who share dreams they have at night, and images that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother-Work: Voice of the Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ayeja sings it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. She is always modest, reminding us that she never got trained, and fretting that she “doesn’t even read music”. But as someone who had the spirit trained right out of her, I look at Ayeja and I see the freedom I never had, the freedom I am still reaching for. I hear the voice of a natural, honest-to-God angel. She isn’t looking for praise or success or for the glory of being listened to. She’s just got the spirit and she wants to let you know it. She wants you to feel it too. That’s Mother-Work too.]]></description>
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		<title>Mother-work: God is Like a Mother Hen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mother Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother's day AND mother AND nurturing AND feminine ANDGod AND You are enough]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was part of an Episcopal Women to Women trip to Jerusalem, we went to a chapel called Dominus Flevit on the western slope of the Mount of Olives just across the KidronValley from Jerusalem.  The church designed in the shape of a teardrop has a picture window overlooking the city and at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Barenblat – mother, writer and rabbi – on the poetry of motherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mother Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Women of Spirit and Faith we are all about weaving connections&#8230; So&#8230;one of our lovely young leaders, Ayesha Mattu hosts a blog called &#8220;Love InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of  American Muslim Women&#8221; (also the title of her extraordinary book). This month Love InshAllah reviews a beautiful collection of  poetry from poet, mother and rabbi, Rachel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Mother-Work as Woman Warrior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I married young in order to have somewhere to shelter my siblings, as we came from parents whose parenting consisted in religion-prescribed punishment. The matriarch whom I chose as my mother-in law was happy to include me and my family under her huge heart and in her powerful arms. Tragically, she was taken by cancer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother-work: Mothering is Helping Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother. When most people think about the word, they think of the woman who raised them as a child. But what does the word mother really mean? Does it have something to do with the person who raised you? Or is there more to the word then there seems at first glance? From my perspective, a mother is someone who takes care of others, a person who helps someone that cannot help him/herself.]]></description>
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		<title>We invite you to blog on: mothering and “Mother-Work”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/05/we-invite-you-to-blog-on-mothering-and-mother-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mother Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Women of Spirit and Faith has joined with multiple organizations to invite events across the Earth on Mother&#8217;s Day in celebration of Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties &#8211; ALL women &#8211; as the Earth&#8217;s original peacekeepers. As part of the celebrations, we extend an invitation to you to send us a blog of 300-700 words on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am…an Urban Priestess</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/04/why-i-aman-urban-priestess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have asked me, “What is an urban priestess?” It doesn’t matter if she has always been in touch with her divine sacredness or if she’s had a recent breakthrough…the fact is…she is AWAKE.  Now, I didn’t say perfect. Or enlightened beyond everyday existence. She is awake and awakening more deeply each day.  She understands that life is a journey and that we all have our own way. She knows that healing and releasing “stories” and worn-out beliefs is imperative so that she may feel free and live the life she was born to live.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am…discovering spirituality in nature</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/04/why-i-am-discovering-spirituality-in-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/04/why-i-am-discovering-spirituality-in-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early evening after a cold spring rain in Zuccotti Park in New York City (a year and a half after the end of the Occupy Wall encampment), I meditate with others and find deep peace. Yet my discoveries of spirituality in nature begin years before, perhaps in childhood on Illinois’ suburban prairies the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am a…Seeker of The Sacred Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/04/why-i-am-a-seeker-of-the-sacred-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/2013/04/why-i-am-a-seeker-of-the-sacred-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Paskell-Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Why I am a...]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thedivinefeminine/?p=1094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All efforts to put words to what we feel seem woefully inadequate when we are confronted with the overwhelmingly Sacred Spirit of the universe. Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have attempted with symbols, dances, and words to share their experiences. We have used meditation and hallucination to recreate and share those freeing feelings. As a [...]]]></description>
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