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		<title>Keep running Jamey, keep running&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran a 10km road race with my daughter last week.  To be precise, I started with my daughter, ran with her for 100 meters, watched her pull away for the next 5 minutes, and eventually, I ran a 10 km road race by myself.  She&#8217;s much more of a jack rabbit than I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=510&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One day at a time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coping mechanism for a recovering alcoholic is to take it &#8220;one day at a time&#8221;.  Sobriety, recovery, wellness and life is a journey as well as a destination and it&#8217;s a wise person who takes it &#8220;one day at a time&#8221;. I like that but sometimes I find even &#8220;one day&#8221; too long a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=488&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The want to, versus the what to&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every morning I get up and think about the day in front of me.  I usually make a cup of coffee, pull out my daily calendar, look at the events, look at tomorrow&#8217;s events, and then take a look at my &#8220;annual plan&#8221; (I have a sketch of 4 or 5 things that I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=451&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low energy&#8230;low motivation&#8230;&#8221;Captain, we&#8217;ve got no power&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up an email the other day from a friend who thinks they have chronic fatigue syndrome.  They sleep plenty but don&#8217;t awaken rested.  They could sleep more and it doesn&#8217;t make any difference.  Their daily routine drags.  Motivation is low, energy is absent, life drags.   It&#8217;s not that they are not trying but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=445&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s My Best Critic?  Who&#8217;s My Worst?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not met many folk who like to be criticized.  By &#8220;criticized&#8221; I mean being put down, or faults found, or judgements made against.  You know the experience.  People look at what you&#8217;ve done, or what you&#8217;ve said (or conversely not done or not said) and render contrary opinion to the max.  Sometimes if&#8217;s just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=438&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boy, the preacher worked hard this morning&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He sure did.  Researchers suggest that a preacher burns between 6 and 10 hours of energy delivering a 30 minute message on a given Sunday.  Today he certainly burned closer to the 10 than the 6.  How come? I think it was because he was working harder than we were in this sermon experience.  Earlier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=422&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sabbatical Musings Part 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend wrote this morning asking about my sabbatical.  He was really interested in &#8220;what are you doing with it?&#8221;  If I understand his question I think he&#8217;s asking more than polite information.  He&#8217;s a learner who learns best from asking other people questions then processing the information for his own gain.  In short, he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=417&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Old Dog, Called Loyalty&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I passed through 32 years of marriage a month ago.  Hard to believe&#8211;32 years.  Honestly, it feels like 22.   It&#8217;s been over 3 decades of togetherness full of events, celebrations, mishaps, misunderstandings, surprises, delights and encounters.  What&#8217;s held us together?   Well, I guess you can call me an &#8220;old dog&#8221;.  I believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=407&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Is Not A Baptist&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jameymcdonald.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/god-is-not-a-baptist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But then again, last time I checked he didn&#8217;t claim to be Presbyterian, or Pentecostal, nor Anglican nor Adventist.  I think he&#8217;s above labels.  In fact, most would say he &#8220;self defines&#8221;. I confess my bias.  I understand God in the &#8220;Judaeo-Christian&#8221; sense.  My religious experience hasn&#8217;t been universally explorative but I have had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=382&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My God and I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Lewis Smedes &#8220;autobiography&#8221; over the weekend.  It was entitled &#8220;My God and I&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a good read.  It&#8217;s not really a long, historical, data filled piece.  It&#8217;s more of a series of vignettes from his life filled with his personal reflections of the events.  Kind of a &#8220;this happened then, and here is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jameymcdonald.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7259201&amp;post=379&amp;subd=jameymcdonald&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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