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	<title>Grief: Finding the Candle of Light</title>
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		<title>Christmas Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this it is Christmas Eve. I am blessed this year to be with my daughter and her family. I have spoke to my oldest son and I know he and his wife will call me tomorrow. And yet I still feel the &#8220;hole&#8221; in my life that was once filled with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grief During the Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stores are announcing their sales and the countdown begins. If this is the first holiday season that you must navigate since your loved one has died it can be overwhelming. How do you get through the holidays? Try to identify what will HELP you through this holiday. Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually filled with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/11/grief-during-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>There Is Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sharing from “seven years later”.* If you are reading this and you feel almost too sad to read, keep going. This isn&#8217;t a long post and I do not speak complicated. I believe in getting to the point. I have 3. Give yourself ONE do-able task per day. The emphasis here is on give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/09/there-is-hope/</link>
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		<title>Investment in Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gym time, daily jog, walks in the park, evening cup of tea with a good book, fresh fruits and vegetables, a long weekend in a quiet cabin&#8230;we wisely invest in many ways to promote physical and spiritual health. I have a suggestion for three brief, practical books if you are going through a time of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/08/investment-in-healing/</link>
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		<title>The Compassionate Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, a friend asked me to become involved in the start-up of a new local chapter of The Compassionate Friends. This is a “grass roots” support group for parents and grandparents who have suffered the loss of a child. The national organization reports there are 625 chapters located in all 50 states. &#160; My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/05/the-compassionate-friends/</link>
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		<title>The Chihuahua called Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Originally posted on Jody&#8217;s Daily Devotions, May 4, 2011) &#160; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, &#8220;Your threat means nothing to us. If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us from your roaring furnace and anything else you might cook up, O king. But even if he doesn&#8217;t, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/05/the-chihuahua-called-cancer/</link>
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		<title>P.S. I Love You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(2007 film, based on the novel of the same name by Cecilia Ahem) I believe this is the best “grief movie” I have ever seen. Hilary Swank&#8217;s character, Holly, goes through and back again, all the stages or emotions of grief. She is throwing-things angry; pulling-the-sheets-and-closing-myself-off depressed, and I-don&#8217;t-EVEN-understand confusion until she gets to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/02/p-s-i-love-you/</link>
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		<title>Max Lucado: When Death Becomes Birth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reason I read Max Lucado&#8217;s work is not for its deep theological content, although I do believe he writes Biblically sound, but Rev. Lucado has a gift to use words to paint wonderful life pictures.  His humor peaks through these illustrations of day-to-day life.  It touches me.  It challenges me.  It brings me back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2011/01/max-lucado-when-death-becomes-birth/</link>
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		<title>Tears on Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Christmas that we travel through after someone we love has died is never easy. Christmas is about those we love, the laughter we shared and meals together. No matter how many people are around the table, there will still be an empty chair. Too often, in my experience, I have had people tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2010/12/tears-on-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Fearless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Max Lucado   (ISBN #978-0-8499-4658-5), 2009 Fearless, Max Lucado’s newest offering, is another example of Max’s God-given talent of painting extraordinary ‘pictures’ in the reader’s mind. It is no surprise that this author has won 12 Gold Medallion Book Awards. He rarely disappoints to bring me a manuscript that draws me into the cadence of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grieftolight.com/2010/11/fearless/</link>
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