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		<title>Practicing Reverence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The practice of paying attention really does take time&#8230;.Reverence requires a certain pace.  It requires willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.”  Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World Refreshed from a week of reading  writers who illumine the sacred in the most commonplace, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Annie Dillard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am taking a contemplative writing class.  It is a luxury to conflate two of my loves&#8211;writing and prayer.  Anyway, I was assigned to write a letter to Annie Dillard in response to her piece, &#8220;On A Hill Far Away&#8221; from her book Teaching a Stone to Talk. Below is a copy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Fret</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not fret&#8211;it only leads to evil.*  So says the Psalm.  I wonder, did the psalmist ever birth a child? I have seen mothers bury daughters-their own flesh in the ground. I have seen mothers visit sons in cells-traverse the road from silver spoon to tin cup with nary a frown? How in the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Lord Your Servant Is Listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday I had the opportunity to offer the sermon at Grace Episcopal Church in Cullman, AL.  If you would like to read the text, you may click here for a transcript of the sermon.  I hope it is as meaningful for you to read as it was for me to write and share. Below are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flossie and Florence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I am slogging through a Clinical Pastoral Education application so that I can work for free in a hospital this summer.  Can you tell I don&#8217;t have a great attitude about this?  Anyway, my poor opinion of spending the summer as a volunteer chaplain-in-training is a bit mortifying to my dear, chaplain husband.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the twentieth in a series written by Malcolm Marler and Mary Bea Sullivan, husband and wife, about their journey as Mary, an author, goes to Virginia Theological Seminary.  Malcolm is a director of pastoral care at a hospital in Alabama. &#8220;She Said&#8221; by Mary I, like all of us, have been on both sides of the &#8220;leaving&#8221; coin. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Feelings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the nineteenth in a series written by Malcolm Marler and Mary Bea Sullivan, husband and wife, about their journey as Mary, an author, goes to Virginia Theological Seminary.  Malcolm is a director of pastoral care at a hospital in Alabama. &#8220;He Said&#8221; by Malcolm I am happy to report that Mary and I both survived her first semester of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my beloved walked beside me in the woods. Silence, crinkling leaves underfoot, blue herons aflight. Shafts of light pierce hearts on fire. All is calm, all is bright. Amen &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bent down so the priest could lay her hands on each side of my face.  &#8220;For what would you like me to pray?&#8221; She asked in a soft, soothing voice.  &#8220;My back is killing me and I am just so stressed out.  I&#8217;m exhausted.&#8221;  I replied. It was the Monday of final&#8217;s week, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie&#8217;s Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I told you about my experience tutoring at Little Lights in DC.  I&#8217;d like to share with you a gift that was given to me from one of my students, and let you know how you could help Little Lights raise over $10,000 today. On the second Wednesday of my 6-week [...]]]></description>
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