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	<title>> Via Affirmativa  &#187; Creativity</title>
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	<description>A Gathering on Beauty and the Gospel</description>
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		<title>Creating in Chaos</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2008/01/29/creating-in-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kathy Berklund-PagÃ©
Â Â Â Â  Three weeks into the process of preparing our home to go on the market,Â we live in chaos as larger repairs eclipse the small upgrades we had planned. Exhaust fans and banisters are no longer up to code.Â Accessing bathroom lights required removing a kitchen cabinet.Â When my husband checked a pipe behind the toilet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCD &#8211; Obsessive Creative Disorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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by Larry Cole 
â€œWhat is this strange compulsion?  Are there others out there like me?â€ I ask myself these questions on a semi-regular basis. I am talking about this overwhelming desire to alter everything I come into contact with. This phenomenon has become brutally apparent as my wife and I are working through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of the work of our handsâ€¦</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Bradley recently spoke on this topic at the Minneapolis gathering.Â  The following is another reflection by Gary on the work of our hands&#8230;
â€œIf I knew the world was going to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today&#8230;â€ Martin Luther
Psalm 90
 12        So teach us to consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wandering Ascetic</title>
		<link>http://viaaffirmativa.com/2007/04/02/a-wandering-ascetic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bmk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure. Spending a year in Kosovo as a military peacekeeper was difficult. Leaving my wife, my job, our new house to pursue the Armyâ€™s objectives overseas required a large adjustmentâ€”a reorientation to life. I had a calendar in my Kosovo barracks with a large X over every day passed, counting down the days to my [...]]]></description>
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