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		<title>The Best of My Days {January}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Christmas a friend gave me a beautiful and unique hand-made gift: The Best of My Days. Twelve simple pages, labeled for each month, with long and narrow and numbered space for each day. Just enough room to write a few words for each day of the year &#8212; the best of my days. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#4 Establish Your Evening Routine {52 bites}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 6:49pm as I type this &#8212; evening routine time &#8212; and I&#8217;m sick in bed. (Just a cold, but I&#8217;m wiped out.) I can hear Jeff reading Prince Caspian and I can also hear Heidi running circles around the house announcing that pixie dust is making her fly. I&#8217;m not sure if this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/02/03/4-establish-your-evening-routine-52-bites/</link>
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		<title>Who has shaped you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice recently I&#8217;ve been asked about my &#8220;Faith Family-of-Origin.&#8221; Meaning this: Just as we have a biological family-of-origin that is largely responsible for any number of our habits and behaviors, so we also have a Faith family of origin. Church or ministry roots that shape our faith during critical developmental years. It&#8217;s been a fun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/02/02/who-has-shaped-you/</link>
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		<title>Consumerist Porn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting these thoughts from a few years back &#8230; as we journeyed through the book of Colossians Joel introduced us to the idea of Consumerist Porn. Consider: Today Pastor Joel talked about empty philosophies (Col. 2) and how we tend to take the world’s “philosophies” or systems and ways of thinking, and mix them in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/02/01/consumerist-porn/</link>
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		<title>When the world pours asphalt on your head&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My running route last Friday was a fabulous out-and-back on the rolling hills of Rosemont Road. It&#8217;s the closest thing to flat that we have around here. Along the flats and downhills my eyes are up&#8211;the sky was glorious blue and the sun was warm on my face even though the temperature never tipped past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/31/when-someone-pours-asphalt-on-your-head/</link>
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		<title>Where to go with your gripe &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I closed Dutch&#8217;s door and marched to the living room. I was breathing hard, frustrated and at a loss as to what to do. Looking back, I was doing what to do, giving him time in his room to get a happy heart and change his complaining attitude before resuming his chores. But in the midst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/30/where-to-go-with-your-gripe/</link>
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		<title>Week&#8217;s end with thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam&#8217;s on sale.  221 women wanting to hear God&#8217;s Word! Peach cobbler. Generous Furmans. Discerning the Voice of God. Classical Conversations. Community Group taco night! Another baby on the way! (Not me!) Gift of forty-pounds of local boneless, skinless chicken breasts! Only God could know what a blessing this was to me! Sunny day for errands. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/28/weeks-end-with-thanks-42/</link>
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		<title>#1 Eat Your Frog {52 Bites}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about eating frogs before &#8230;  You know, your frog. That same one thing, one job that you avoid doing. Loathe doing. Grumble about doing. Do you remember what we are to do with it? Do it first.  Very first thing, after your fill-your-cup morning routine: Eat that frog and be done with it.  You’ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/27/1-eat-your-frog-52-bites/</link>
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		<title>The Five-Point Manifesto for Contentment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the first pink book I&#8217;d ever read. At 19 I still thought women&#8217;s books were either stuffy or silly. I didn&#8217;t like floral prints or calligraphy. But I also didn&#8217;t like my anxious heart so I gave this one a try. Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow proved to be hugely instrumental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/26/the-five-point-manifesto-for-contentment/</link>
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		<title>On prayer: The perfect place to start &#8230; and to stay.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding this so encouraging today &#8230; thanks for reading. “One cannot begin to face the real difficulties of the life of prayer and meditation unless one is perfectly content to be a beginner and really experience oneself as one who knows little or nothing, and has a desperate need to learn the bare rudiments. Those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karipatterson.com/2012/01/25/on-prayer-the-perfect-place-to-start-and-to-stay/</link>
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