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		<title>Day 27 &#8211; What a Wife! What a Mother!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy daily devotions blogging commitment! I didn&#8217;t quite finish reading the passages, then completely forgot to write anything down here. And it&#8217;s the next day. Well, I can&#8217;t afford to get behind, so I am going to finish reading and jot down a few notes. Something&#8217;s already caught my attention. In fact, I could write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1844&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 26 &#8211; The Face that Shines Like the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LORD, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart. Psalm 15: 1-2 (NIV) That&#8217;s the Psalm that greeted me today. After I finished all of the readings, my eye was drawn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1827&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 25 &#8211; Life with Joe and Death with Pete</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/25/day-25-life-with-joe-and-death-with-pete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Joseph cried two more times about his family in the readings today (Genesis 50:1, 50:17).  That guy sure wears his emotions on his sleeves. I love that! And I love that God saw fit to mention Joe&#8217;s tears several times in Scripture&#8230; And when his idiot brothers feared that he&#8217;d finally take retribution after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1818&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 24 &#8211; Forget Me, NOT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-four days down. Three hundred forty-one to go. A friend asked if I&#8217;d give myself grace to not blog every day. I think I need to keep this up for my own good &#8211; to stay in the Scriptures. But I do need to write less sometimes, for my own good (and my family&#8217;s good). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1802&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 23 &#8211; My Suffering Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally get to write about one of my Old Testament favorites: Joseph (of the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat fame). One of the reasons I love this guy is that he gives me hope. When Joseph was young, he told his brothers that based on his dreams, he would one day rule them and they in turn would bow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 22 &#8211; Walk on Water, Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/22/day-22-walk-on-water-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcy commented on yesterday&#8217;s post that Jesus actually did have the chance to deal with the death of John and to pray alone. But he did it in today&#8217;s reading. After feeding the crowd of 5000+, Jesus sent the disciples on their way across the lake and headed alone to the hills to pray. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1777&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 21 &#8211; Relatable Jesus</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/21/day-21-relatable-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proverbs 5:7 appeared in my reading today: The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. (NIV) Coincidence? or Providence?  &#8230; in light of yesterday&#8217;s post about why anyone would sell all they have to buy the Kingdom of God. However, another part of today&#8217;s reading had a bigger impact on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1763&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 20 &#8211; An Expensive Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/21/day-20-an-expensive-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the verses that stuck with me today: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1747&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 19 &#8211; What&#8217;s in a Name?</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/19/day-19-whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I read today&#8217;s passages yesterday, I&#8217;m reading yesterday&#8217;s passages today. Strange Names There are a lot of names in Genesis 36 because the chapter lists the descendants of my new hero Esau. I am really wondering who came up with all these strange, hard to pronounce names. Even if I imagine them with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1735&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 18 &#8211; He Won&#8217;t Forget the Afflicted!</title>
		<link>http://holidaylonging.com/2012/01/18/day-18-he-wont-forget-the-afflicted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this morning, about 6 hours after I fell alseep, someone taps me on the shoulder and says, &#8220;The toilet is filling with water and [sister] is trying to use that stick thing.&#8221; That stick thing would be the plunger and that was my wake up call today, my plans for a bit more sleep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holidaylonging.com&amp;blog=4288436&amp;post=1728&amp;subd=holidaylonging&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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