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		<title>Joy is promised after the pain…</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/04/23/joy-is-promised-after-the-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discouraged in ministry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to enter a new season&#8230;Grand-parenting! I am going to be a grandmother very soon! Yipee! My beautiful step-daughter Ashley is having a little boy and is in labor today. Oh, how I wish she didn&#8217;t have to go through what she will endure in the next few hours. Ask any woman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Continue in Him</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/03/11/keep-calm-and-continue-in-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My eyes opened once again to pain. With no position comfortable I shuffle about trying to find relief. The past few days were good, but not today. Pain, the kind that even hurts when you breathe, the kind that robs your thoughts and threatens to steal the brightness of a new day, a new week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dance of hiding…</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/02/24/the-dance-of-hiding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I don't understand...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacred journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burned out on religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming to Jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning a new way to live]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why, but most of us have learned to hide&#8230;. Hiding is empty&#8211;a far cry from the life of abundance and freedom that God created us for. Simon Tugwell wrote, &#8220;We hide what we know or feel ourselves to be behind some kind of appearance which we hope will be more pleasing &#8230;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why problems?</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/02/18/why-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I don't understand...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biblical joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[count it all joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entitled to]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be happy. But it is the pursuit of happiness that often causes us to remain spiritually immature. Life is more than good times and sunny days. Problems are part of life, but problems can change our life. The Apostle Paul even went as far as saying, &#8221; I want to know Christ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations of the heart</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/02/15/2487/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand why we expect people to be everything in our lives, when only God can fill the empty places of a soul. Yet, if we were to be honest all of us have experienced placing high expectations on people, while living with low expectations towards God. Yesterday was filled with love, roses and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When stuck between love and hate</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/02/09/when-stuck-between-love-and-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/02/09/when-stuck-between-love-and-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I don't understand...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[betrayal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming to Jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lean not on own understanding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving past victim mentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repenting of my sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuck in relational hurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the deeper life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand how life and relationships get so messed up. Regularly I talk to people who are holding on tightly to past hurts, bitterness towards others and deep feelings of misunderstanding. Like me, in these times, they feel frustrated and unable to figure out what to do next. Waking up one night at 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don’t understand…</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/01/31/i-dont-understand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2013/01/31/i-dont-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Up!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TRUST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disappointment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don't conform to the culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[financial burden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going deeper]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[no more new age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[standing on the promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust God]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could count how many times I have heard someone say&#8230;I just don&#8217;t understand. When life is good and the road is clear we move along with ease. But when hit with a disappointment, bad news, or bad behavior by someone towards us, it rocks us. We take a step back, survey the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the year ends…</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/31/as-the-year-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/31/as-the-year-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sacred journey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Days of Christmas #7</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/21/holy-days-of-christmas-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/21/holy-days-of-christmas-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacred journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rohi childrens home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salvation army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sold project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.design4living.org/blog/?p=2450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[December 21. Surrender. It&#8217;s hard. It&#8217;s not natural to us to surrender to a God we can not see. Yet people like us have been surrendering their wills and lives over to a God they can not see, for thousands of years. Faith. That is what it is called when we surrender all that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Days of Christmas #6</title>
		<link>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/20/holy-days-of-christmas-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design4living.org/blog/2012/12/20/holy-days-of-christmas-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Alsdorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacred journey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[December 20th. It&#8217;s getting closer and some people are getting merrier while others are getting sadder. Suicide hot-lines are lit up, counseling offices are open beyond normal hours and the most wonderful time of the year turns into the saddest time for those who are grieving, suffering, remembering, dying. This is the day the word [...]]]></description>
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