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	<title>Practical Christian Mysticism</title>
	<link>http://yaholo.net</link>
	<description>&#34;For those who are seeking truth, want to experience God, pondering the meaning of life, and wonder why hot dogs come in packs of ten but the buns in packs of eight.&#34; - Yaholo, The Practical Mystic.</description>
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		<title>Searching for Real Hope</title>
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“So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” &#8211; 1 Corinthians 13:13
Of the three virtues of faith, hope and love, it has been hope which I have struggled with the most recently.  All three of these terms have been buried in the shallow “greeting card” culture modern Christianity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/searching-for-real-hope/</link>
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		<title>If Heaven Is Such A Great Place, Why Aren&#8217;t We All Dyin&#8217; To Get There?</title>
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I am going to try something new here.  Below are some thoughts on Heaven from a good friend of mine, and below that, is my response.  I think a lot of people have these thoughts regarding the afterlife, and I feel like this is a good way to draw them out.
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From Todd:
I woke up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/if-heaven-is-such-a-great-place-why-arent-we-all-dyin-to-get-there/</link>
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		<title>The Inevitable Corruption of Naivety</title>
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Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple&#8230; Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?&#8230; Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/the-inevitable-corruption-of-naivety/</link>
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		<title>The Mystic Virtue of Being &#8220;Like a Child&#8221;</title>
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“He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said, ‘Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.’” &#8211; Matt. 18:2-3
Whenever I find a verse in Scripture that doesn’t seem clear, I keep it top-of-mind.  I can’t help it really. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/being-like-a-child/</link>
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		<title>Humility vs. Self-Deprecation &#8211; The Glory of One and the Toxicity of the Other</title>
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There is no greater virtue a person can have to foster spiritual growth than humility, and no greater poison than self-deprecation.  It has been surprising to me how intertwined and confused these two very different concepts have become.  As an almost humorous phenomenon, self-deprecation seems to have taken over from an “I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/humility-vs-self-deprecation-the-glory-of-one-and-the-toxicity-of-the-other/</link>
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		<title>Insanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a pastor, with a church of 50 people, burning a Qur&#8217;an.  It is the entire media industry deciding to cover every wakko they find under a rock.
It&#8217;s not &#8220;all chalkboards lead to Hitler&#8221; Glenn Beck.  It is the thousands of people taking him seriously.
It&#8217;s not a government full of corrupt and complacent politicians. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/poetry/insanity/</link>
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		<title>Being the Light in the Darkness&#8230; It ain&#8217;t easy, but someone&#8217;s got to do it!</title>
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And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend a it.  &#8211; John 1:5
and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness &#8211; Romans 2:19
All through Scripture we see the struggle between good and evil represented as light and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/being-the-light-in-the-darkness-it-aint-easy-but-someones-got-to-do-it/</link>
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		<title>I am becoming&#8230;</title>
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I am becoming
something I do not know
feel it growing
as it begins to show
heart beat screams intent
not just content to beat
works till it is spent
not resting till complete
don’t feel myself
am not me but a shell
wait to meet itself
a beast within a cell
want to step aside
a shadow to a seed
greater is inside
it yearns to emerge freed
I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/poetry/i-am-becoming/</link>
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		<title>My Haiku Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the haiku as a form of poetry, mostly because it is short and I don&#8217;t usually have the time other forms of poetry require.  As my poetry section has been a little sparse, I decided to create this running archive of all my haikus I post on Twitter.  If you want to follow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/poetry/poetry-funny/my-haiku-archive/</link>
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		<title>Who Are The Poor?</title>
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When I talk with people about the Christian responsibility to the poor, I usually get two very opposing responses.  One person will state that most of the poor around us are poor of their own fault.  They are poor because they don’t work hard or manage their lives wisely.  Another person will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/life-application/who-are-the-poor/</link>
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