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		<title>On Rain and Torn-Down Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It rained all day today, and that is a rare moment in southern California.  To celebrate, I posted an old poem I wrote in college on my Facebook page.  I thought I&#8217;d post it here as well, just for fun.  Enjoy!
On Rain and Torn-Down Houses
I miss the sound the rain made at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraknowles.wordpress.com&blog=1787163&post=497&subd=lauraknowles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Development of My Body Theology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the link to the first part of &#8220;Call of the Artist: a recovering of image in the Church,&#8221; a piece I wrote about 18 months ago exploring the connection between the human body and art in the Church.  (I never posted it because it includes a story involving another Fuller student, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraknowles.wordpress.com&blog=1787163&post=486&subd=lauraknowles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Journey</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine accidentally gave me this poem, and I accidentally read it.  It accidentally struck just the tender chord in me, so I am with intentionality and purpose including it here without any commentary or insight of my own, just to rest in the knowledge that yes, someone else knows what it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraknowles.wordpress.com&blog=1787163&post=478&subd=lauraknowles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psalm 89 &#8211; A Lament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How long, O LORD ? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Remember how fleeting is my life.
For what futility you have created all men!  (Psalm  89: 46-7)
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		<title>Ash Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another little piece from my writing lab&#8230;
(desert pictures are copyrighted!!)


There is something haunting about the barrenness of the desert. The dry, cracked earth produces little more plant life than bristles, thistles, and thorns. I am sitting on the hillside overlooking St. Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California.  The cemetery rests behind me, just up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lauraknowles.wordpress.com&blog=1787163&post=456&subd=lauraknowles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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