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		<title>You were Planned for God’s Pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne Steele]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purpose #1 God has planted his people like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory. Isaiah 61:3  The Lord is pleased only with those who worship him and trust his love. Psalm147: 11 Because of his love God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children-this was his pleasure <a href='http://christajanryan.net/you-were-planned-for-gods-pleasure/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Substance Addiction and Domestic Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Relationship Between Substance Addiction and Domestic Violence Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Good looking Corpse For the first Forty-Five years of my life I maintained a life of High Alert that pertained to this motto. Live fast; so that the pain would never catch up to me and present itself as a learning <a href='http://christajanryan.net/substance-addiction-and-domestic-violence/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self- Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne Steele]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was asked to write for a Women’s Magazine, I stopped short in my tracks and tried to think of a commonality that we all shared and were all battling. I hope to start with this topic and go down the list of what arises when we avoid this important entity to the core <a href='http://christajanryan.net/self-love/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Down The Enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the early evening of September 16, 2009, my 18 year old son was brutally stabbed and beaten. There is no medical reason that he should have lived. He lost 3.5 pints of blood, is an asthmatic that almost drowned in his own blood. Prayer and God are the only reason he lived. I was <a href='http://christajanryan.net/bringing-down-the-enemy/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne Steele]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living.   Socrates, From Dialogs I was able to arrive at self-awareness at the age of 45,when my life exploded before my eyes. The marriage of 23 years was no longer working, I couldn’t make head or tails out of what my 6 diget income to cover my 7 diget <a href='http://christajanryan.net/self-awareness/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is God to me? part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne Steele]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was so extraordinary about this God of mine? The waves of love I felt from him when I sought out his company. The vastness, the hole, the void of emptiness and isolation that he filled immediately. I became surrounded with a peace and sense of serenity that I had never experienced or felt in <a href='http://christajanryan.net/who-is-god-to-me-part-2/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is God to me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dianne Steele]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 14, 2009 It is said in the Big Book that God is either nothing or everything. When I first started in AA and visiting the rooms, I would glance and briefly read the steps and walk by and look at the literature that was out on the tables. As the fog lifted and I <a href='http://christajanryan.net/who-is-god-to-me/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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