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		<title>a whole year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I've been reflecting some on a day that changed my life: May 25, 2008.

On that date, I picked up a 13 year old kid from the Freedom neighborhood to come stay with me for two weeks. A year later, Romeo's still here and I have no regrets....]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=84</link>
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		<title>cynicism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Failure.
Many have overcome it.
Everyone has experienced it.
Reality TV is really based around it.
True, isn&#8217;t it? We watch shows like American Idol, and just as much as we pick winners, we pick the losers, too. We judge the giftedness of others on the largest stage ever devised, and we&#8217;re all very comfortable with that. And we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>when we can&#8217;t stand on our own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[...] Watching her struggle to her feet was almost painful. Her thin fingers took hold of the black armrests on her wheelchair, and she began pushing herself slowly up, clearly straining for every inch of vertical movement. Finally, she was on her feet, though she look as though she might fall at any moment. Growing more and more unsteady, she stood in front of us, wavering as she sang every word of the song. All the while, her knuckles remained white, still gripping the armrests with all her might in a valiant attempt to remain standing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=77</link>
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		<title>welcome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the new place. Yes, it&#8217;s exactly the same.
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		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=1</link>
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		<title>the twelve step church: a guy named joe, a volcano, and the third step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the movie Joe Versus the Volcano, Joe Banks has a miserable life. He&#8217;s a hypochondriac working a dehumanizing and dead-end job managing the catalogs at a company that proudly produces sexual prosthetics. Joe is having an even worse week. He is diagnosed with a terminal yet symptomless condition called a brain cloud. Then he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=66</link>
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		<title>the tattooed tears of mary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, in the neighborhood I work in, you will see a tattoo of a tear on someone&#8217;s face, or sometimes several. In urban areas, tattoo tears can symbolize one of two things - that the owner has murdered somebody, or that they have lost someone close to them. These tears are many times translated to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>the twelve step church: wiping my own ass and step 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Three nights a week, I provide respite care to an eighty-six-year-old man who lost one foot to diabetes. Tom is in a wheelchair, and though he tries hard, he&#8217;s almost completely helpless - he can&#8217;t cook for himself, he can&#8217;t clean himself, and he can&#8217;t even use the restroom by himself. When he first had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>step 1, whataburger, church and [expletive deleted]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If foul language is a serious offense in your book, stop here. It&#8217;s not worth offending people with a bad word just because I&#8217;m finally breaking my month-long blog silence. I promise I&#8217;ll post again soon. I&#8217;ll admit that, much to my mother&#8217;s dismay, I have developed a certain liking of the words that our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=60</link>
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		<title>mike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the Highland office now, working at the computer in the community ministry office.  Mike Cope is in his office across the hall.  I occasionally wonder if he remembers the time in Randy&#8217;s and his Bible class when, from the row behind him, I poked his bald spot with a pencil eraser.
I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=59</link>
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		<title>six shots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six shots rang out Tuesday on a street where children were playing.  The target ducked down in her car, which the gunman destroyed with his bullets. Amazingly, no one was hurt.
Maranatha.
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		<link>http://cruciformme.dailylifetemple.com/?p=58</link>
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