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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the hardest thing to realize is that Christ does not look at the outward action, or the result of motive; he looks at the motive itself. What an absolutely stomach-twisting thought. How many times do we do things that are right out of the wrong attitude or motive? How often do we act in &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/motive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=779&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re small, you don&#8217;t have any idea what it takes to live a life. You think you do, and you think life is hard when your parents don&#8217;t let you stay up past 8. If you are a Christian as a child, you think, &#8220;why does everyone say how hard this is?&#8221; Your parents &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=777&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way we tend to think of things is a somewhat cynical one, unless we’ve been living under rocks. We say Jesus is in the storm, that he is sovereign over everything. We don’t stop to consider that maybe he is the storm, that maybe he orchestrated it. Our tendency is to try and put &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/divine-storm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=768&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The farther away I get from the semester and life in Cape Town, the more I realize about myself&#8230;good things and bad things. The most obvious thing is that stress, which has always been an issue for me, has sky rocketed to a point that NASA can&#8217;t get to. It is probably the reason why &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=765&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God has taught me a lot this year. He does that most years, but this year was like boot camp. Inevitably, what with living on my own for the first time and starting university while remembering to actually buy food and cook it, there were many adjustments. Any adjustment takes some adjusting to. It&#8217;s part &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=762&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>africanstardust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pray nostalgia away
keep your gaze to the center
there are better things coming
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		<title>Katavti ha&#8217;Blog b&#8217;Ivrit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>africanstardust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veronique kotevet: Zeh ha&#8217;post b&#8217;Ivrit, v&#8217;zeh probably raa meod, aval mah attem expect? Asiti Ivrit raq 23 shavuot, lachen attem lo y&#8217;cholim la&#8217;chshuv sh&#8217;Ivrit sheli yafeh meod. Aval zeh chashuv la&#8217;asot Ivrit, lachen anachnu poh. Achshav yeshli harbeh avodah v&#8217;ha&#8217;stress is insane! Yesh raq shlosha shavuot lifnei ha&#8217;mivchanim, v&#8217;az ha&#8217;chag! Ani lo y&#8217;chola believe sh&#8217;cvar &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/katavti-hablog-bivrit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=750&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Practice</title>
		<link>http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/in-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the thing. The media and world have become obsessed with being thin and ripped and all of us looking like models and body builders. It&#8217;s a fad, just like being overweight and pale was a fad a century or two ago, and it will pass. A lot of Christians are quick to criticize &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/in-practice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=746&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I &lt;3 You</title>
		<link>http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/i-3-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will not be ashamed. I will not be afraid. I will not bend or break. I will not step down. I will not falter. I will not be intimidated. HE gives me strength. I am human. I am imperfect. I am not the ideal Christian. But I know where my heart is, and my &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/i-3-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=736&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Life in My Blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of my life, the only family I saw regularly were my parents, and if I was lucky, one of my sisters and my brother (but then only once a year at most). Living in a different country on a different continent and not having a millionaire in the family tends to have this &#8230; <a href="http://actingmasquerade.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-life-in-my-blood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actingmasquerade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9978896&amp;post=731&amp;subd=actingmasquerade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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