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	<description>Insights &#38; Musings to Stir Your Soul</description>
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		<title>Awakening Your Soul in the Second Half of Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soul Awakening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brene Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rohr Falling Upward]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding True Purpose and Making the Most of Your Life  In the foreword to the revised and updated edition of Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Brene Brown talks about a subject we all can relate to: homesickness. Just the word summons up a longing we know too well, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the Sphinx Sees Red: The Easter 2026 Prophecy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prophecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Bledsoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter 2026]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “UFO of God” Guy and His Startling Iran War Prophecy for April 5, 2026.  I wrote about Chris Bledsoe several months ago in a story titled When God Sends a UFO. I was scrolling the social media site Threads a couple of nights ago when I saw his name mentioned—and what I read startled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Narnia: Did C.S. Lewis get a few things wrong?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters on Living the Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narnia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding wisdom and “humble disagreement” in the private letters of a Christian giant. Are you familiar with the work of C.S. Lewis? He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, a classic seven-book series and film franchise built on Christian themes and theology. And his book Mere Christianity is still a bestseller in Christian literature, recently holding the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Redefining Success: The 2nd Act of a California Beachcomber</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beachcombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Bode]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent most of my life living in the Northeast, and this time of year I get antsy. By the middle of March, we’ve been teased by a few sunny, 60-plus degree days, the kind of weather that get me thinking about my happy place: the beach. But just as day turns to night, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Kingdom Next Door: Is Heaven Closer Than You Think?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.T. Wright]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of us think of heaven as a faraway place, somewhere up in the clouds, a destination we won’t reach until after our death. But what if we got it wrong? What if heaven was closer than we could ever imagine—and, according to the Bible, can be found right here on earth. That’s the premise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing the Inner Game of Pickleball—And Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inner Game of Tennis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Gallwey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you played pickleball yet? I took it up several months ago and it’s probably the first new sport I tried since I was 12 years old, or half-a-century ago. But after some prodding from my pickleball-playing wife, I gave it a go. And I’ve got to say, I like it. Playing pickleball got me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Death the Ultimate Life Coach?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/03/is-death-the-ultimate-life-coach/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning of death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Cain]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can thinking about death get us more tuned in to life? The ancient philosophers called the Stoics, who lived around the time of Jesus, had a practice known as memento mori. It’s a Latin phrase that literally means “remember you must die.” And while it may sound like a real downer, it was a way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Modern Face of Ancient Jewish Mysticism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Kabbalah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ariana Grande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Essential Kabbalah]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Madonna to Mick Jagger to Ariana Grande: The Lure of Kabbalah What is it about Kabbalah that seems to draw celebrity followers? You may have spotted the iconic red string bracelets that symbolize Kabballah on the wrists of actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Lindsay Lohan and musicians from Madonna to Mick Jagger to pop [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Uh-Oh: The “Year of the Fire Horse” Arrives February 17th</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/02/uh-oh-the-year-of-the-fire-horse-arrives-february-17th/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Eclipse in Aquarius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of the Fire Horse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wait a second, could things actually get even crazier in the year ahead? According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the answer is yes. Because on February 17, 2026, for the first time in sixty years, we usher in the “Year of The Fire Horse.” Here’s some background: The Chinese have an ancient astrological calendar known [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding Spiritual Contentment in the Wilds of Madison Ave</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hollis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Avenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Meade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Moore]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent 40 years on “Madison Avenue” chasing success, only to find my soul couldn’t care less. Here’s how I finally found spiritual contentment. For 40-plus years, I worked in advertising. About half that time, in New York City. I made pretty good money working a job while often enjoyable, it often could drive you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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