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		<title>Remembering Rocky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it&#8217;s worth watching.&#8221;
- Unknown

It is an amazing legacy to see the fruit of someone&#8217;s life still growing strong even after they have passed away. That is such evidence of a life well lived, and it has impacted me to the core. Rocky&#8217;s funeral was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crescent Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Mark,
As I rocked Ava during her middle-of-the-night feeding last night, I looked out the nursery window to see the most beautiful scene. A perfect crescent moon hung in the sky and reflected in the lake below, clouds slowly moving in the dim light around it. A sweet calm settled in my heart, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our life us frittered away by detail&#8230; simplify, simplify.&#8221; 
- Henry David Thoreau

Have you ever felt that life is spinning out of control&#8230; that life is &#8220;happening to you&#8221; or passing you by before you can get a chance to regroup? I&#8217;ve had these times all too often over the last year, and as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to His Feet Again</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/back-to-his-feet-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Soul nurturing is not optional. It&#8217;s not a luxury, but a necessity. You could almost define the worn-out woman as a person who has allowed her soul to parch and wither because, for one reason or another, she has not been able to spend time beside Still Waters. None of us can find balance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Anne with an e&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[I'm] well in body, though considerably rumpled in spirit.&#8221;
~ Anne Shirley

Dear Anne,
It&#8217;s been one of those days&#8230; a &#8220;Jonah Day&#8221; as you call it. A day when I&#8217;ve felt &#8220;in the depths of despair&#8221;. A day of many tears, emotions, things gone wrong, snow in April.  I needed a little encouragement ~ a little understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Moments</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/03/16/happy-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A happy life is simply the sum of many small, happy moments.&#8221; 
- Penny Krugman

Spring has sprung in the northwoods of Minnesota. No leaves on the trees yet, but we&#8217;ve had warm, sunny days and a rush of melting snow. I saw sparkling water today on the lake for the first time in 4 months&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/03/05/1061/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Trusting God does not change our circumstances &#8211; it changes us.&#8221;
- Unknown

It&#8217;s easy to trust the Lord when our lives are lush and green, overflowing with blessing and prosperity&#8230; when we&#8217;re spiritually in a kairos hour&#8230; a time of fruitfulness and growth. In my daily quiet times with God I have said, &#8220;Lord, I trust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and Friendship</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/02/25/tea-and-friendship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; &#8216;Stay&#8217; is a charming word in a friends&#8217; vocabulary.&#8221;
-Louisa May Alcott


I had some dear friends come over for tea yesterday, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, I was having so much fun, that I completely forgot to take any pictures. Mom came too, and we chatted the afternoon away over hot cups of tea and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few of My Favorite Things</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/02/23/a-few-of-my-favorite-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens&#8230; 
these are a few of my favorite things.&#8221;
- Julie Andrews

Here is the stage where winter gets really long. We&#8217;ve already had more than enough of it, but there is a grim realization that there is plenty more to come. Last night when Mark and I were driving home in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiness&#8230; only by the power of His Grace</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/02/20/holiness-only-by-the-power-of-his-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jesus not only gives purity of heart, but Jesus is our purity of heart.&#8221;
- Peter Kreeft


&#8220;Holiness is a dangerous thing to preach when its relationship to grace and the real presence of God is not understood. Knowing and preaching the law of God does not enable one to keep it. Only grace does that. Moralism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Rainy Afternoon</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/02/12/on-a-rainy-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.&#8221;
- C.S. Lewis

I&#8217;m almost done with my book&#8230; and that makes me sad. Have you ever read a book that was so good that you never wanted it to end? I may just end up reading it all over again when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Heart is Full</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2009/02/08/my-heart-is-full/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness 
continues through all generations.&#8221;
- Psalm 100

It is late and I should be asleep next to my sweet husband, but the joy of the Lord has made my heart so full that I need to have an outlet&#8230; and since everyone I know is sleeping, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/fading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the Autumn tree.&#8221;
- Emily Bronte

The brilliant color of the trees is fading fast. (Sniff). We&#8217;ve had an amazing Autumn season this year in Northern Minnesota, and I&#8217;m sorry to see it leaving us for another whole year. But this year more than any other I was able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Thought Lives</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2008/10/14/our-thought-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord.&#8221;
- Psalm 19:14

I&#8217;ve been reading through the book &#8220;Intimate Friendship with God&#8221; again by Joy Dawson. I first read this book when I was in YWAM 13 years ago (Wow! I can&#8217;t believe its been that long already) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Secret Place</title>
		<link>http://markandmiss.com/wordpress/2008/10/10/my-secret-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillon</dc:creator>
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 My favorite place to have my time with the Lord is in the cemetery. It&#8217;s not morbid as it may sound, but absolutely beautiful. It&#8217;s quiet, peaceful, I can pray out loud, sing. I walk around and read the tombstones and wonder about their lives, their legacy. It reminds me that life is short and [...]]]></description>
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