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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of months, I&#8217;ve developed a new appreciation for Aloe Vera.   I remember having an Aloe plant growing up, thinking it was very neat to have a plant in the house that could soothe the burns and scrapes I got.  It was, as it is for so many of us, foreign to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=308&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a pastoral intern in Elon, NC, and so many of the church members had gardens, I was so impressed with how much everyone shared with everyone else.  Every Sunday (and many days in between) there was an exchange that took place.  Someone had squash come in and there was more than they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=298&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Gardening</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing from the Arizona Five-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation, in Tucson, AZ.  Serendipitously, our theme here is focusing on the journey of a seed as it eventually becomes part of a garden. We are talking a lot about the Desert Christians, the Christians who retreated into the deserts of Egypt and Syria and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=283&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Seed that is Me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like the idea that I&#8217;m a seed.  First, I think seeds are fascinating &#8211; so small compared to the plant it becomes, seemingly dead, yet full of potential life.  They are a mysterious treasure, as it&#8217;s not at all obvious that a seed will become the thing it will grow into just by looking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=266&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me? A Gardener?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot claim to have a green thumb.  Indeed I have led many plants to their demise.  Yet, I have aspirations of one day being a gardener.  In fact, planting a small garden is on near the top of a very long list of things I want to learn.  My track record with plants, alongside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=249&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Lent, I&#8217;m working with the concept of generosity (particularly financial generosity) with the Desert Foothills UMC congregation.  As I&#8217;ve tried to come up with an image for generosity, it occurred to me that the journey toward generosity is also a journey to greater openness. Generosity is one of the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=242&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of Saguaros on Ash Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have found, on my hikes through the desert, that I am particularly drawn to dead and dying saguaros.  I can spend a very long time examining, taking photos, contemplating the reality that this once great, stately, ancient thing, is now bones and decomposing skin.  This that used to be a home, a source of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=230&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts? Concerns? Worries? Fears?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I told you I wanted to know what you think about day to day.  What fills your thoughts, takes up your energy and time?  I expect that many of these things are normal every day tasks like what to do for dinner, what the day&#8217;s schedule involves, work tasks, and the chores that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=220&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stewardship &#8211; It&#8217;s not just the dreaded &#8220;money&#8221; time of year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Jamie reported that there were some among us who didn&#8217;t know what a Stewardship Campaign was!  That&#8217;s terrible, since we&#8217;re in the midst of one.  So, I figured my first blog during our Stewardship Campaign should help remedy this! Stewards are people who have been put in charge, been asked to care for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=212&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Gratitude, Living Gratitude, Day 16: Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am amazed at the opportunities that I have had in my life.  In fact, that is one of the main ways that I see God moving in my life.  I look back at some of the opportunities that I&#8217;ve had and marvel at the way that they came to be.  Some of them are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dfumcpastor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6890032&amp;post=202&amp;subd=dfumcpastor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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