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		<title>From the Desk of the Executive Director: December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas greetings from the National Association for Christian Recovery! As a mom and minister, the special preparations surrounding the Christmas season seem intense and the actual experience short-lived.  When my children were young, I was amazed at how long it took to gather the gifts, wrap the packages, fill the stockings with care, prepare the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Desk of the Executive Director: November 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We breathed in Dallas on November 7th and 8th…and it was exhilarating. Thanks to all who sacrificed time and finances to make the trip! We came together from the extremes of the compass points, even as far away as Canada. We breathed, talked, cried, worshiped, discussed and perhaps debated a point or two. I hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the desk of the Executive Director: August 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings! &#160; I appreciate conversation; I am not a big fan of monologue.  So it is with cautious delight that I announce the availability of a book that Liz Swanson and I co-authored: Bridges to Grace.  After extensive interviews with over two hundred recovery ministry leaders, Liz and I set out to begin a conversation by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/1269/from-the-desk-of-the-executive-director-august-2011</link>
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		<title>From the desk of the executive director : Feb 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, In 1989, three people &#8211; Carmen Renee Berry, Pat Means, and Dale Ryan &#8211; began a series of meetings that led to the formation of NACR. At the time, few churches had recovery ministries. Those that existed were mostly small, disconnected, marginalized, and confronted by resistance from elements in the Christian community. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/1178/from-the-desk-of-the-executive-director-feb-2011</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/981/take-inventory</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.nacronline.com/wordpress/970/my-joyful-lent</link>
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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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