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        <description><![CDATA[My Guide to the Galaxy &amp; All Things Cosmic, Kismet and Inane.]]></description>
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               <title> <![CDATA[ The Guest House ]]> </title>
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               <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
               <description> <![CDATA[ This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they&#039;re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ Rumi ~ (The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks) ]]> </description>
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               <title> <![CDATA[ Life Passages ]]> </title>
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               <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
               <description> <![CDATA[ What can I say?  It&#039;s been a crazy, busy 2010.  Not much to show for it - a few creative and personal development retreats, a fab family getaway to San Francisco by train, a whole lot of committee and other volunteer work and of course, the usual kid run-around and achievements. My son spent a few months meeting with his congregational counterparts - all 8th graders - for their Coming of Age prep classes.  The annual Coming of Age service at our church was held early-May.  In prep for this service, in which all of the 8th graders plan the &quot;sermon&quot;, the music and the readings, each 8th grader must write and deliver their own credo or personal belief statement which may or may not be traditionally spiritual.  Holy Son was pretty secr... ]]> </description>
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               <title> <![CDATA[ What To Remember When Waking ]]> </title>
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               <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:16:00 -0400</pubDate>
               <description> <![CDATA[ In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is  hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just em... ]]> </description>
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               <title> <![CDATA[ In Praise of the Earth ]]> </title>
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               <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:03:00 -0400</pubDate>
               <description> <![CDATA[ by John O&#039;Donohue (excerpted from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings) Let us bless The imagination of the Earth. That knew early the patience To harness the mind of time, Waited for the seas to warm, Ready to welcome the emergence Of things dreaming of voyaging Among the stillness of land. And how light knew to nurse The growth until the face of the Earth Brightened beneath a vision of color. When the ages of ice came And sealed the Earth inside An endless coma of cold, The heart of the Earth held hope, Storing fragments of memory, Ready for the return of the sun. Let us thank the Earth That offers ground for home And holds our feet firm To walk in space open To infinite galaxies. Let us salute the silence And certainty o... ]]> </description>
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               <title> <![CDATA[ Charter for Compassion ]]> </title>
               <link>http://www.holyschmidt.org/2009/10/charter-for-compassion.html</link>
               <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
               <description> <![CDATA[ CHARTER FOR COMPASSION TRAILER from TED Prize on Vimeo. On November 12th, I pledge to join the conversation and engage my RE class of 4th graders as we deviate from our World Religions unit on Judaism to discuss the Golden Rule and how compassion lives universally.  Where better than in the heart of the Old Testament (Leviticus 19:18) to begin this dialogue on compassion and indeed, The Great Commandment? If you are not familiar with the Charter for Compassion, or for that matter are not up on the great work of history of religions scholar Karen Armstrong, then run to your nearest bookstore or library and pick up any number of her great, accessible reads, beginning with Through the Narrow Gate to more recently, The Case for God. Sh... ]]> </description>
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