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		<title>Darkest before the Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 5th entry from Oswald Chamber&#8217;s &#8220;My Utmost For His Highest&#8221;. For additional entries please visit utmost.org. ’. . . and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.’ . . . But they understood none of these things . . . —Luke 18:31, 34 God called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom (Happy 4th of July!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an American you most likely attribute the liberties we enjoy in the United States to the nation&#8217;s founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence, which was signed on July 4, 1776. However, credit should be given where credit is due and, truth me known, our freedom comes not from mortal men but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you picking safe people?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great article by Dr. Henry Cloud. Have you ever wondered why some relationships seem to lead to growth and happiness and others to pain and injury? Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone, finding them attractive and charming, trusting them in some way, and then later were hurt very badly by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ylenaparks.com/are-you-picking-safe-people/</link>
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		<title>3 Steps on the Journey Toward Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you become trapped in a negative cycle of behavior or thinking?  One that while it makes you unhappy and wreaks havoc on your self-esteem also compels you to continue in the cycle.  It&#8217;s your own personal Catch-22 and regardless of how miserable it makes you, you feel helpless to fight it or correct it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ylenaparks.com/journey-toward-healing-begins-with-3-steps/</link>
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		<title>Living in a cage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a story I hold dear to my heart. It was told to me by a missionary who had returned from Africa, where she had heard a version (I have taken creative liberties) of this story told by a local. Deep in the heart of an African jungle there sat a caged tiger. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counseling is about the person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following article was published in Bible Study Magazine on March 1. Counseling Is Not About Pat Answers But a Person When our study of the Bible stops permeating our lives, what has gone wrong? David Powlison, teacher of pastoral counseling for Christian Counseling &#38; Educational Foundation (CCEF), says it may be because we view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timing is Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luke 18:31-34 Then He took the twelve aside and said to them &#8220;Behold we are going up to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. &#8220;For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. &#8220;They will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ylenaparks.com/timing-is-everything/</link>
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		<title>A Few Good Men (or Women)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 Samuel 14:6 “…it may be that God will work for us.  For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few.” For those who are not familiar with this passage, allow me set the stage.  Picture it – the Israelites are at the mercy of the Philistines.  The odds are stacked against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ylenaparks.com/a-few-good-men-or-women/</link>
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		<title>No Shame in Suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 Peter 4:16 &#8220;Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.&#8221; Many incorrectly assume that the Christian life is a life of ease &#8211; rose petals, chocolate and day dreaming on a sandy white beach in the Carribean.  This is not what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ylenaparks.com/the-suffering-christian/</link>
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		<title>Waiting for Life to Begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you waiting for life to begin?  Perhaps you&#8217;re managing your unhappiness through &#8220;self-medication&#8221; substance use ( alcohol, medication, drugs) to excess, shopping to excess, working in excess, eating in excess or participating in a self-inflicted hunger strike, protesting against the unhappiness.  The hope is that through your actions (pick one of the aforementioned) you [...]]]></description>
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