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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I astonish myself sometimes with my own thick headedness. Life lessons that I thought I&#8217;d learned once and for all, lessons I was sure I had down pat, issues I was convinced would never surface again &#8211; rear their ugly head and remind me of my own frailty and need to depend on God. I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2633&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday goodness &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from Good Friday service to an empty house; circumstances have conspired to give me an afternoon alone. I plan to use the time for reflection and quiet study in preparation for an exam I have to write for my Character and Ethics class, Monday evening. But the reflections have already begun. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2611&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where hope becomes faith &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.&#8221; – Robert Brault My Ethics &#38; Character class this week featured a guest lecturer, addressing the subject of bioethics. As part of the class, he played a video that featured brief profiles of two couples. Each couple &#8211; during their first pregnancy &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2530&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8216;Why?&#8217; falls silent &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<title>Toward wholeness &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Entropy means that everything in the world is in a state of decline and decay &#8230;&#8221;  - Jane Fonda My mirror tells me the truth of this universal law, every single day. But when Jane Fonda spoke these words in a public talk recently, she went further. &#8220;There&#8217;s only one exception to this universal law,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2461&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When fact and dreaming meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.&#8221;   - Victor Hugo It&#8217;s been many months since I&#8217;ve posted here. They&#8217;ve been months of self-reflection and careful thought. I recognize I&#8217;m in a new phase of life. Having left an all-consuming full-time job, and with my years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2443&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In limbo and liking it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a sense of being led somewhere, but you didn&#8217;t know quite where? You just knew that it was away from one thing, and towards another thing, even though that other thing hadn&#8217;t yet been revealed? That&#8217;s where I am right now. It feels sort of like being &#8220;in limbo&#8221; &#8211; except with more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2426&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of specks and planks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a difficult day. I had some interactions with a Canadian Christian leader who behaved in a manner that was disappointing; arrogant, completely lacking in any obvious humility, this person was the antithesis of what I expect from one who claims to follow Jesus. Maybe my expectations are high. But shouldn&#8217;t they be? This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2419&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking time to play</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I don&#8217;t want the brightness to slowly leak out of me because I settled for the dulling effects of a life without play.” -    Andi Ashworth *** Craving some fun recently, I embarked on a course in Travel Writing. I&#8217;ve been absolutely LOVING it! My instructor, Olivia Stren, is a doll &#8211; supremely talented &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2404&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving day in Kingston</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Paddey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even Mother Nature decided to celebrate moving day in Kingston. I use the term “moving day” loosely. No one sent a memo. No official writ was dropped declaring Saturday April 30 as the day by which the entire city – or at least the entire student population of the city – must move. But move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patriciapaddey.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10293819&#038;post=2395&#038;subd=patriciapaddey&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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