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	<title>Lighter Phrases</title>
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	<description>Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. Ecc 1:2</description>
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		<title>on being vs. seeming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gray One: While we are on the subject of things witnessed at school, I laughed involuntarily when I overheard one of my students give this explanation to another student of why she was late to class:
&#8220;I ain&#8217;t taking the elevator, &#8217;cause if you take the elevator, people think you&#8217;re fat.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/11/on-being-vs-seeming/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bet you wish your academic discipline were as easy as mine.
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		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/11/149/</link>
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		<title>Tilt Shift Disney World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After some recent cheesy posts, its time to restore the cool to this blog. And what is cooler than tilt shift photography (and cool music):

I&#8217;m sure this is what Disney World will look like when I visit this weekend. Tilt-shift basically makes real objects look like they are miniature models. This is accomplished by photographing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/tilt-shift-disney-world/</link>
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		<title>Florida Laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I will be heading down to Florida this weekend for a conference, I think it is important to get up to speed with their laws. So far, I have learned that a bicycle is legally defined as a vehicle. But does this mean I can get speeding tickets? I have also learned that gay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/florida-laws/</link>
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		<title>New Monastic Luxuries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you live in a New Monastic community. You have relocated yourself to the abandoned places of empire&#8230; down the road. You share economic resources with fellow house members and the needy&#8230; or you smooch mooch. You love to compost your food wastes (and also the unmentionables)&#8230; in your kitchen. You act as a peacemaker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/new-monastic-luxuries/</link>
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		<title>The Other Side of Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw the following lines on a medical school bathroom stall:
Please flush the toilet. Do it twice.
I want to be an M.D.
M.D. = Missed diagnosis.
M.D. = Mentally disturbed
My eyes hurt
No matter how good she looks someone is tired of accepting her crap.
And witnessed this scene in a hospital:
Patient: &#8220;Thank you so much for taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/other-side-of-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness is Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
We are learning about forgiveness at the New Leaf School for Christian living:
So often, vengeance is the route used in our society. But forgiveness is clearly the better way. How can we be more forgiving? Be a part of a conversation where we can live into the Lord&#8217;s prayer, &#8220;Forgive us our trespasses, as we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/forgiveness-is-better/</link>
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		<title>Eat More Kale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe there was once a time when 90% of our church was vegetarian. (OK maybe that is an exaggeration.) The good thing is that vegetarians are passionate people, so we had a passionate church. The bad thing is that we were getting infested by all these live animals that were begging to be eaten. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/eat-more-kale/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this picture on NPR.org a few days ago:
It struck me because I don&#8217;t usually associate disasters with smiling. But this lady is beaming, overjoyed at her rescue. Rather than focus on her general distress, or the rehabilitation that may lie ahead, she is just happy to be out of that dark hole, unphased [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/the-joy-of-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Seeing God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many beautiful songs have been written about seeing God. &#8220;Oh what joy&#8221;, &#8220;take my breath away&#8221;, bla bla bla. But I bet none of these song writers considered that suing might be a more profitable expression.
A Campbell River man has received $63,000 in damages for an &#8220;out-of-body experience&#8221; in which he said he saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newleafchurch.org/lighterphrases/2009/10/seeing-god/</link>
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