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		<title>prairie home pilgrimage v4 day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[grateful we could make the trip, and to all the people we have met or caught up with along the way.  we have been reminded of the power of relationship.  a bit sad that another pilgrimage is in the books.  to kristyn, connor and aunt karen &#8230; we can&#8217;t wait to see you! thanks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we had technical difficulties with the videocast today, but we attempted to make the best of it and had great fun in the process!  as much fun as it might be, it doesn&#8217;t do justice to the quality of the events and interactions of the day.  familiar places like the sugar shack, but new faces [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>prairie home pilgrimage VFore day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have begun our 4th pilgrimage to the holy land of st. paul and the fitzgerald theatre.  say tuned each day for updates from the road.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1049&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he is at the same time tough as nails, and handle with care.  he is equal parts action jackson, and pre-dawn sofa time.  he is &#8220;oh boy, he didn&#8217;t just say that&#8221;, and &#8220;wow, did you get what he just said?!&#8221;  he has a will that is first cousin to iron, and a heart two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1045&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i stood in the shower this morning searching the width and depth of my grammatical sensibilities to pull out the polar opposite of the word &#8220;invitation&#8221;.  i honestly struggled, and eventually came up empty.  it shouldn&#8217;t have been that hard, and i&#8217;m convinced that my soul was warring with my intellect, so as not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1033&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the best definition &#8230; i&#8217;ve ever heard</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-best-definition-ive-ever-heard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[his big brother is gone.  gone, like gone to africa, gone.  or at least that&#8217;s what i heard in his voice and saw in his eyes today.  at 7:15 this morning, spencer joined his friend shawn and his family on a week-long vacation at a cabin on a lake &#8220;up north&#8221;. connor has been brave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>סֶלָה</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/%d7%a1%d6%b6%d7%9c%d6%b8%d7%94/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s amazing to sit squarely in the middle of God working in your life.  this morning i experienced the touch of the Divine through a 6 year old girl and her mother. i need to back up a bit, and set the context for this present of presence.  i have been consistent the past couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1023&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>flash of lightning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s the kind of story that has seen enough time pass, that i probably remember it more the way i want to, than the way it really went.  my mind&#8217;s eye sees me sitting in a kitchen chair, my mom holding a pair of electric clippers, my dad coming down the stairs, soon to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1012&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>independence day lessons &#124; part two</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/independence-day-lessons-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s interesting where your mind will go when it finds an invite in the form of meditation.  the day before yesterday it found a connection between independence day and my role as a father. one of the sacred echos in my life recently surrounds the idea of not exasperating my boys.  i have a bit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>independence day lessons &#124; part one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i suppose i could google it, but does anyone know when we transitioned from calling this day, &#8220;independence day&#8221; to &#8220;the fourth of july&#8221;?  i am likely making too much of it, but it seems a bit like how memorial day is now more often treated as the official opening to summer, or the day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my post title cannot be understood absent the context of my title picture.  it is interesting the depth of thought that can be spurred on by an innocent and timely glance at one&#8217;s ipod. i have been blessed recently with a handful of awarenesses or prompts that i can only explain as the direct involvement of God in my life.  the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=996&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cleat marks</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/cleat-marks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it was a quiet ride home in the man van last thursday night coming home from connor&#8217;s baseball game.  not because of the result of the game, or any issue with connor&#8217;s performance.  rather, i was lost in thought, and not anxious to leave it.  as i pulled out of the parking area, my mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=985&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>it&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/its-whats-inside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i was beginning to feel a bit bad as i sat down to write this post.  it was planned to focus on another story about a conversation with connor.  and i started to feel a twinge of guilt, like, where are the stories about conversations with spencer?  he&#8217;s a warm, thoughtful, insightful, creative young man, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=975&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>makes Him really happy</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/makes-him-really-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 02:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i have been gone all week on business, but i had a chance tonight to spend some dedicated time with the boys.  kristyn had a show, so the boys and i took off just after five o&#8217;clock for a brief bite of dinner and a trip to barnes and noble. on the outbound and return [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=964&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a girl, a dog, and a Shepherd</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/a-girl-a-dog-and-a-shepherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 13:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[kristyn and connor were off at what seemed like the break of dawn this morning.  by the time my eyes struggled to get open and kristyn and i were not yet out of bed, connor had shared his hand-written mothers day card and hand-drawn mom coupons inside.  and only minutes later, he was cashing one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=961&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hangin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/hangin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i have been so absent from posting recently, and it has been quite some time since i just posted about my day.  today is the perfect day to remedy that.  because today, as the post&#8217;s title picture would indicate, was a daddy day. i started the day with quiet time in the form of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=955&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>today is wednesday</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/today-is-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[have you ever heard someone say, &#8220;God spoke to me!&#8221;?  i confess to hearing that a bunch of times in my life, and being really skeptical every time.  that is, until recent years when my faith has begun to mature, and i began to truly experience God moving and working in my life.  to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=952&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the weight of empty</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-weight-of-empty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a more-like-a-brother-than-friend gave me a compliment quite some time ago, when he mused that he “didn’t know where i came up with some of the connections that i write about sometimes.”  i admitted to him that it was not really me that came up with that stuff.  in and of myself, i could never see things that deeply or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=946&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>pop art</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/pop-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the inspiration came more than a month ago, and it&#8217;s time came this morning.  an early morning resolve &#8230; then cancellation &#8230; then rebirth of the original resolve. we sat at the dinner table last night, and amongst other things, talked about saturday breakfast.  we have been a bit busy lately, and we were all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=931&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the wife of noble character</title>
		<link>http://firstinitialp.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-wife-of-noble-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[no, not the wife of A noble character &#8230; that would only be true of the &#8220;character&#8221; part.  no &#8230; my post title today is the title of a section of scripture that describes more perfectly than i ever could, the wife that i celebrate today.  a woman who God chose for me before there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstinitialp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7226926&amp;post=925&amp;subd=firstinitialp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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