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	<title>Merry Christmas &#187; Spirituality and Inspiration</title>
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		<title>WEST VIRGINIA PRESBYTERIAN (1952)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tired old Presbyterian Church at the top of the dirt road is the only church here. A girl of four, neat as a pin, sets off from her house at the opposite end of the road to walk the 200 yards or so to the church. Her mother stands in the middle of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=274&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wedding, the Ex-Wife and the Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve found myself&#8211;  sometimes standing in the living room, sometimes during a walk, sometimes while reading, sometimes lying in bed late at night&#8211; I&#8217;ve found myself reflecting on the happiness of my life, the contentment I feel, and the fact that every single day I feel a deeper connection to and love for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=255&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Dogs Are With Us So Briefly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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This is another story e-mailed to me by a friend.

A Dog’s Purpose (from a 6-year-old).
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=243&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Peace (1957)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From World Peace, by Swami Sivananda, publ. 1957:
Only removal of ignorance can stop all future wars and dissensions. Spiritual culture, ethical education, measures that are best calculated to instill love and a sense of unity in men and women can prevent nations from resorting to war.  If all people begin to practice kindness and mercy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=238&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jasmine, Canine Earth Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came to me in an e-mail message from a friend. I have no idea who wrote it, or when, or if it was published anywhere or is just making the rounds via e-mail forwarding. But it&#8217;s such a wonderful story, and it describes so well the fundamental greyhound breed characteristic of gentleness that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=184&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is &#8220;Christian?&#8221; What is &#8220;Mystical?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/who-is-christian-what-is-mystical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion among Quakers about de-emphasizing the Christian foundation of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),  and its Christian principles got me thinking about the definition of  &#8220;Christian.&#8221;   People shy away from the word because of  the negative and repressive connotations connected with fringe elements.  Fundmentalists,  Evangelicals and similar sects have hijacked the word [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=163&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quakerly Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
Friends (Quakers) have a testimony against holding special days (holidays), presumably based on the concept that each day is a blessing and that we should have one standard of behaviour for every day of the year. This means that many Friends do not celebrate holidays such as Easter, Christmas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=147&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of God(dess)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K Silipo. All rights reserved.
My sense has always been that God speaks to each person in the language that s/he best understands. And that the language we can comprehend changes when our life experience changes us. So, someone who is a mathematical genius with no concept of Oneness as a teenager might end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=143&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ritual Among Friends (Quakers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
The query for our day retreat was, &#8220;Other religious traditions use rituals to help align their lives with the Light. What helps us open our lives to the Light and realize our visions?&#8221;
The basic assumption inherent in this query is that there are no rituals among Quakers. Among the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=140&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quaker Retreat Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
One of the qualities of Friends that attracted me was spontaneity.  Another was the all-encompassing participatory nature of Quaker activities. It took me much of this weekend to realize that this was the reason I was so uncomfortable at the retreat; but I finally recognized that I was peculiarly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=138&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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