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		<title>Let Go of Shame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before himendured the cross, scorning the shame. Hebrews 12:2 Shame is that terrible, private feeling that something is wrong with us—that we are somehow defective as a person. That we are irreparably damaged. That if anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Inventory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is an offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:25-26 Difficulties in life bring out the best in us. And the worst. This was certainly true of my experience with cancer. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notice Your Reactivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Galatians 5:22 The first responses I received when I told people about being diagnosed with cancer were usually responses of shock and compassion. I felt tenderness from most people. And I was soothed by that tenderness. For an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/973/notice-your-reactivity</link>
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		<title>My Joyful Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was sitting with my eyes closed, listening to a friend read aloud a familiar passage from Philippians 4: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to everyone…,” and so on through several more verses. A few friends and I were doing a lectio divina (“sacred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Surrender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks after I was diagnosed with cancer, a music CD arrived in the mail from a friend. Several years earlier this friend had been told she had ovarian cancer and needed surgery. It turned out to be a false alarm, but she’d had a deeply significant spiritual experience through her ordeal.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/958/practice-surrender</link>
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		<title>Pray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we are faced with difficulties in life, we need support from friends and family. We also need God’s help. Perhaps the most direct way to open ourselves to God is through prayer.]]></description>
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		<title>Take in Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of September 11, 2001 my husband and I watched Gwen Ifill of PBS interview Mr. Rogers. Gwen was asking Mr. Rogers to give people advice about how to talk with their children about what had just happened.]]></description>
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		<title>Feel What You Feel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I was diagnosed with cancer I felt everything. I felt fear. I felt shock. I felt grief. I felt shame. I felt numbness. I felt resentment. I felt jealousy. I felt anger. I felt gratitude. I felt peace. These feelings seemed to come and go of their own volition.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/926/feel-what-you-feel</link>
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		<title>Gather Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. That is what I was taught as a twenty year old nursing student. We learned to empower our patients. . .one of our most important tasks was to educate people about what to expect, what choices they had, what was going on in their bodies, how to speak up for themselves, how to get support and how to take good care of themselves.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/922/gather-information</link>
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		<title>Keep Breathing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keep Breathing. These words stood in bold lettering on a card I gave a close friend. She had just received some painful news and was very distressed. ]]></description>
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