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		<title>Mid-Life Crisis At 35?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to have a mid-life crisis at 35? I think it must be, because that&#8217;s what life feels like these days. I&#8217;ve been struggling with a pornography addiction for over two years, and during those long days I thought I was in &#8220;crisis&#8221; mode. Then six months ago my third child was born [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1058&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Birthday Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Birthday Office Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Birthday Office Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jesus Didn&#8217;t &#8220;Just&#8221; Die On The Cross&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ didn&#8217;t &#8220;just&#8221; die on the cross for us. He gave up the chance to get married, To have children, To watch them grow, To learn to walk, To learn to talk, To hold them in His arms. He gave up the opportunity to have a career, &#8230; To be successful in business, To [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1054&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;a spring of water welling up to eternal life.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rabidmongoose.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/a-spring-of-water-welling-up-to-eternal-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rabidmongoose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“One of the paradoxical bedrock truths of the Twelve-Step program is that we can stay spiritually alive only by giving away what we are receiving.” J. Keith Miller, A Hunger For Healing When I read this quote I had a mental picture of a deep well and a bucket being lowered into the well, filling, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1048&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duplicity In Our Grieving</title>
		<link>http://rabidmongoose.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/duplicity-in-our-grieving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the nights since the shootings in Connecticut last week I&#8217;ve been losing a lot of sleep. I lie awake in bed, but I don&#8217;t worry about gun control, school safety or even the safety of my own children. No, I&#8217;ve been losing sleep over us, the American public, who seem duplicitous in our grief over the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1045&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Stages Of Pornography Addiction Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rabidmongoose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A majority of American men access pornography on a daily or weekly basis. For the lucky few who recognize this habitual usage as the addiction it is, five stages of recovery from pornography addiction ensue: The &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know What Else To Do&#8221; Stage: Like all addicts, pornography users eventually hit bottom. Maybe a man&#8217;s wife [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1041&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting God With Our Loved Ones</title>
		<link>http://rabidmongoose.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/trusting-god-with-our-loved-ones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We would all like to &#8216;save&#8217; the members of our families, but often we can&#8217;t. I had one brother, and he was an alcoholic. I sobered up one March, and he died right after Christmas the same year. He was thirty-seven years old.&#8221; Joe McQ, The Steps We Took This is the ultimate surrender: It [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1037&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Step 12: Giving Hope To The Hopeless</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When a man has a spiritual awakening&#8230;he has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead-end, not something to be endured or mastered.&#8221; Twelve Steps &#38; Twelve Traditions On my good days I recognize that life is not a dead-end, but rather that I am [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rabidmongoose.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32596004&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=rabidmongoose&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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