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		<title>Amazement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following piece comes from a writing exercise on the five senses that I did last week in Carrie Newcomer&#8217;s &#8220;Writing Mindfully&#8221; class.  Amazement Amazement looks like a six-year-old girl, twirling &#8217;round, blond ringlets elongated as they spin, arms outstretched, face lifted to the heavens. Amazement tastes like the warmth of a summer peach, melting on my tongue. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=689&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year In&#8211;Thank you for your support!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Family, Community Near and Far, As I wrap up my first year at seminary, it is time to pause and express my gratitude and to all of you who have been along on this journey so far. What an amazing year it has been!  This year has been a time of opening, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=661&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Tension of Anticipation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anticipate: to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure. Anticipate: to expect; look forward to; be sure of; to anticipate a favorable decision The advent season is one of anticipation. Of waiting… Of preparation… Of looking forward to the special Christmas day… When the concepts of anticipation and Christmas come together, I picture the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=648&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is Only One Earth&#8221;                            Reflections on consumerism, personal choice and the global community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine posted this words on his Facebook status this morning. I found them to be words that connect with thoughts and feelings I&#8217;ve been mulling recently, and appreciated the way he articulated them. A prophetic voice in the world of consumerism, exclusive nationalism, and economic examination. &#8220;There is only one earth. One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=641&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Heard An Owl&#8221; by Carrie Newcomer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This song has been one of my musical prayers of late.  It wrestles beautifully with the nature of evil, love and healing and what is God and what is human and where the hope and action come in. Here&#8217;s a link to a youtube video someone made using the song if you&#8217;d like to listen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=627&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are a Pumpkin &#124; Being Emptied Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.” When I hear these familiar lines, I’m drawn to the second-half of the equation. Let’s talk about the dancing and this joy-filled clothing. “You brought me up from the grave, you spared me from going down into the pit.” Rescue and new life—excellent! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=616&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God of Welcome. God of the Stranger.</title>
		<link>http://annawoofenden.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/god-of-welcome-god-of-the-stranger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few of the resources I gathered and created for worship at Richmond Church of the Brethren on the topic of “Welcome”. Words and images, stories and songs, bring us into the presence of the Divine and the presence of each other. I invite you to travel with me into the land of poetry, as you hear the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=598&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please Call Me by My True Names      By Thich Nhat Hanh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please Call Me by My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow Because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second To be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=593&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer of Lament</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the Psalms can open us up to the expanse of human emotions and the depth and breadth of human expression as we call out to God.  The prayers of &#8220;lament&#8221;, of pain and suffering, asking for and receiving God&#8217;s presence are plentiful. There is something precious and vulnerable in these Psalms, as we are invited into the inner depths of the psalmists life and experience, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=572&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Christian: Marcus Borg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Salvation.” “Sacrifice.” “Redemption.” “Righteousness.” Where do these words take you?  I, like many in today’s culture I believe, have some negative and specific connotations to what might be preached or assumed in the rest of sentences that contain these terms.  In modern culture these words often are associated with a strand of Christian thought that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annawoofenden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621437&amp;post=554&amp;subd=annawoofenden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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