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	<title>Practical Christian Mysticism</title>
	<link>http://yaholo.net</link>
	<description>"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." - Yaholo, The Practical Mystic.</description>
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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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		<title>The Lost Virtue of Temperance &#8211; When Vices Are Good For You</title>
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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” &#8211; Benjamin Franklin
We humans tend to live in extremes.  Most people who drink, drink to get drunk.  If not, it is because they don’t drink at all.  Most people who smoke, chain smoke packs of cigarettes a day.  The rest of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/the-lost-virtue-of-temperance-when-vices-are-good-for-you/</link>
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		<title>The God Bargain &#8211; When Saints Act Like Pagans</title>
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We are all born pagan.  I realize how harsh that sounds, but just think about it.  Idol worship and superstition come naturally to us.  We quickly develop rituals to help our favorite sports teams have &#8220;good luck&#8221;.  Gamblers blow on dice, lottery players have lucky numbers, and Friday the 13th still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/the-god-bargain-when-saints-act-like-pagans/</link>
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		<title>Messiah?&#8230; No Thanks, Already Got One! &#8211; Why We Constantly Look For Saviors, but Hate the One We Got.</title>
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Man wants to be free, but always looks for a king to rule him.  A strange contraction in human nature. The truth is, when things are great and seem to be under our control, we just want to be left alone.  We don’t want anyone to tell us what to do when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/messiah-no-thanks-already-got-one-why-we-constantly-look-for-saviors-but-hate-the-one-we-got/</link>
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		<title>Why We Need Religion&#8230; and I Couldn&#8217;t Have Said It Better Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a shocker, an article expressing a positive opinion on religion in the NEW YORK TIMES!  Stanley Fish reviews the book &#8220;Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate&#8221; by Terry Eagleton.  In the book, Eagleton argues that science cannot replace religion for the simple reason that science has nothing to do with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/science-and-religion/why-we-need-religion-and-i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself/</link>
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		<title>A Lesson from the Wardrobe: Why We Can&#8217;t Go Back.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As a life-long C.S. Lewis fan, I always enjoy taking a minute and reflecting on the many contributions he made to Christian Mysticism.  I especially enjoy addressing the lessons inferred amidst his fictional writings.  One of my favorite mystical lessons, is the lesson of the wardrobe.  In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/books/a-lesson-from-the-wardrobe-why-we-cant-go-back/</link>
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		<title>Catholisense &#8211; Part 1:  The Need for Moral Idealism</title>
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&#8220;If you want peace, work for justice.” &#8211; Pope Paul VI
“If you want justice, work for chastity.&#8221; &#8211; Pope John Paul II
This begins a serious of articles I have decided to write in defense of the Catholic Church and her controversial teachings in our current post-modern culture.  I have entitled this series “Catholisense” because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/catholisense-part-1-the-need-for-moral-idealism/</link>
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		<title>Comparing the Teaching of Jesus to the Tao Te Ching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Roberston has posted a good comparison between the teaching of Jesus and the Tao Te Ching on his blog Christian Mystics.  Here are some excerpts below:
“What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose their souls?” Luke 9:25
“To be proud with wealth and honor is to sow the seeds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/comparing-the-teaching-of-jesus-to-the-tao-te-ching/</link>
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