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		<title>A Bad Day</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2012/05/07/a-bad-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problems have a way of preoccupying our minds. At night especially problems are magnified and so we are glad when morning comes. In the morning a better perspective is found. Still though problems easily seem to own us and we therefore can default from the truth. With problems we can doubt our value. To God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain, Hurt and Jesus</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2012/04/23/pain-hurt-and-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever been hurt or felt let down in life? King David faced betrayal by King Saul and yet he loved Saul. The book of Ruth shows that Ruth&#8217;s life took a huge downward turn as did Naomi&#8217;s. Pain and hurt are a part of life. They can act though as a mechanism of growth. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How are you feeling?</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2012/04/13/how-are-you-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How are you feeling?&#8221; &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t feel right.&#8221; &#8220;If it feels right do it.&#8221; We are a feeling driven society. Usually though on the other side of a &#8220;feel good&#8221; is a &#8220;feel bad&#8221;".&#8221; Paul writes in Ephesians 2:3, &#8220;All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage and Old Shoes</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2012/03/07/marriage-and-old-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life at times seems overwhelming but my constant is my hubby. After 27 years of marriage, I&#8217;d say this commitment to each other is like a favorite old pair of shoes. We hear this saying often and yet it&#8217;s true. Favorite shoes are worth reheeling or resoling. We put some work and money into them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buses and Blessing</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2012/01/30/buses-and-blessing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have distinct memories of the Sweetman &#8220;bus period&#8221;. We had no where to live and so good friends lent us a bus. We parked it in my parents backyard, ran a power chord to my parents&#8217; house and while Dean and I had a bed, the kids slept on bus seats. It was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2011/11/29/pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be so nice to live in a world of no pain. Doctors&#8217; offices are full of people pursuing just that. Relief from physical, emotional and mental pain. Pain hurts. We see situations of this from the beginning of time. Many times in our desperation we try to appease our pain in detrimental ways. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual Ebbs and Flows</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2011/10/03/sexual-ebbs-and-flows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sexual Ebbs and Flows There&#8217;s times when sex is on our mind and so it&#8217;s easy to make it a priority. Other times it&#8217;s work. Often sex is called an act because we have to make ourselves perform. We have to stir ourselves to action! There&#8217;s times of desire and times of no desire when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2011/08/29/fighting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow did Dean and I fight in our early married years. Yelling, silent treatment, sleeping in separate rooms, throwing things at each other and driving off in the middle of the night. Though the above mentioned events are extremes and should decrease over time, marriage involves the meshing of two different individuals. Each has opinions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Single and Accountability</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2011/08/16/sex-single-and-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex Most of us know what the Bible states about sex &#8211; between a man and a woman in marriage. That means that God would love singles to abstain. That&#8217;s tough but after all, there&#8217;s not many occasions when he says &#8216;no&#8217; to certain things. Casual sex or any sex outside of marriage can seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression, Bad Days, What Will I Do.</title>
		<link>http://jillsweetman.com/2011/07/26/depression-bad-days-what-will-i-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tough times and depression are not a new dilemma. Whether depression is a disease is still debatable. In these times, we are fortunate that there is medication that can decrease our pain in crises. Often though, taking a pill dulls the mind and emotions rather than changing the mind and emotions. That is an issue [...]]]></description>
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