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		<title>The Story Continues&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difficult part about getting to this phace of the story is how to finish it, for it won&#8217;t ever be finished.  The new life that began all the way back there in that jail cell on my 40th birthday will never end.  Though this earthly existance will be extinquished one day, that new life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1894&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Prison &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dejected?  Absolutely!  How in the world was this happening….again? 
Confused?  Absolutely!  After trying so hard to do everything right, the lie of an unknown person – apparently someone with an ax to grind – instantly transformed a tolerable situation into pure hell.
But doubting? My faith isn’t as strong as Joseph’s for I did doubt and wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1879&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Behavior Modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[     There was always a ritual to it.  That was something upon which I could count. 
     Whenever I violated a known law of the house there was sure to be a price paid and the payment of that debt always followed a ritual. If at home, I would be immediately sent to my room to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1864&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Praise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And the ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.&#8221; Isaiah 35:10
 We went to comfort, but came away comforted; such was the vigor of her faith&#8211; such was the beauty of her &#8230;
 Praise
 Her life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1859&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only the Good Things?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by A Prodigal, January 21, 2007

But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. - Job 2:10
Of course, we all love presents – the good things.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1854&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>06:30</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devotions are done.  The pod is waking up.  Next door, clearly audible through the heating vent, there is another discussion about who stole who’s soup – fifteen cents is almost an hour’s pay for some.  The alert tones on the guard’s radio is hitting more frequently as the compound wakes up and the radio traffic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1847&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Give Up</title>
		<link>http://aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/never-give-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by A Prodigal, January 20, 2007.
But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God?   Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. -Genesis 50:19-20
We end Genesis where we began: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1840&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.&#8221; Hebrews 11:6
 Perfect Faith
The shield of God is very real today
I know His ear bends low whene&#8217;er I pray;
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		<title>October 23, 2007, 05:30</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 23, 2007
05:30
OK, so I didn’t see you at 2230.  I really didn’t expect sleep to come but it did and I have no memory of the night.  The hours passed unnoticed and without incident.  I don’t even remember hearing the jingling keys of the third shift officer as he made his rounds.  Amazing!   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1826&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/fathers-day-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written Father’s Day, 2005, for the weekly church newsletter………………

General Douglas MacArthur wrote, “By profession I am a Soldier, and I am proud of that fact.  But I am prouder to be a Father.  My hope is that my son, when I am gone, will remember me, not from battle, but in the home, repeating with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aprodigalreturns.wordpress.com&blog=2275142&post=1704&subd=aprodigalreturns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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