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		<title>The Fourth Sunday of Advent 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to post some Advent reflections the day after each Sunday in the liturgical season. Sometimes these thoughts come from memories of years past &#8211; as the first piece did &#8211; and sometimes from what I have  heard in readings and  homilies at church &#8211; like this one does. &#160; The final [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=6330&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third Sunday in Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a third post in a series on Advent thoughts. It is getting posted much later than the first two but here you go. The third Sunday in Advent is Gaudet &#8211; the root meaning is rejoice &#8211; Sunday. Many reasons are available for rejoicing on this third Sunday in Advent. John is baptizing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=6277&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is almost the shortest day of the year. Light is becoming less prevalent and you are probably thinking that I am a crazy person for wanting to write about light. Guess what? I may be a bit crazy but light is the one thing we all celebrate and want, particularly here in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=6260&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minutes to Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am participating in #Trust30 which is an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself.  Today&#8217;s prompt, on top of being a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, is imagining you have 15 minutes to live. 15 minutes?  This type of timeline makes me think of Joplin right now. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5874&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Community?</title>
		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2011/05/02/what-is-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community! We all live in one but do we have other communities that we are a part of?  I know I belong to many different communities.  I frequently wonder what makes community and how hard it is to keep a community together. I am a member of the &#8220;running&#8221; community.  A lot of the runners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5758&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in Photos</title>
		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2010/12/30/christmas-in-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Art, Family, Just my Thoughts, Religion Tagged: christmas, photos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5576&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2010/11/29/advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I awoke and made some cookies for a friend at church.  I looked around my home to find where I had stashed the Advent wreath from last year&#8217;s clean up after the holidays.  I, then, came to my blog to attach two pages back to the blog.  Both of these pages had been private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5521&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith is Not &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2010/11/22/faith-is-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just now reading Ronna Detrick&#8216;s e-newsletter and, as always, she has me thinking.  She has me thinking about faith and what it is and, definitely more importantly, what it is not. &#160; Faith is not going to church or worship every week.  This act may be inspired by your faith in a higher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5493&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat, Pray, Love &#8211; India</title>
		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2010/08/30/eat-pray-love-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes.  I am behind.  While BlogHER caused the first delay (no, I didn&#8217;t attend but Maria did), my mother being in town for a two week vacation caused my personal delay in my sticking with the Eat, Pray, Love postings.  Here&#8217;s the background. Maria of BOREDMommy fame is reading and writing about Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5297&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving and Receiving</title>
		<link>http://nickisnook.net/2010/07/20/giving-and-receiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in church yesterday, listening to Deacon George&#8217;s homily.  Okay, I admit I don&#8217;t know if people other than priests give homilies but Deacon George was talking about the readings of the day and really hitting home with me.  And while I couldn&#8217;t tell you exactly what the verses were I will explain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickisnook.net&amp;blog=2414800&amp;post=5168&amp;subd=momto6&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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