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Ventilation: Manners
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006. Still struggling to determine your root sin? Perhaps we can learn something from your prayer life. Pride vs. faith. A faithful person discusses many of life’s moments with God, generally before the moments occur. A prideful person discusses fewer of their moments with God, and usually in retrospect; more of a telling than a confiding. Prideful people talk to God a lot, while faithful people usually listen. Greed vs. hope. Greedy people prepare to pray. Lust vs. love. The only pa...
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Ventilation: September 2005
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005. What’s so bad about being Mallory anyway? Lately I have been letting people off the hook if I think their intentions were good at the time they made a mistake or a bad decision. I know that when God judges us, sin is sin, regardless of our intentions, but what about as we bear with each other? Should our intentions count? Work proceeded, but when the time came to put the system to the test, there were obstacles preventing it from being made real once again. Right before she...
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Ventilation: April 2006
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Friday, April 14, 2006. Confessions of a snob. For many years our company held an annual volleyball tournament, and people from all our regional offices gathered for a weekend of ‘team building’. I had just joined the company when the last of these legendary events was taking place. I had only made a handful of friends, but I was not without a boogie partner at the main reason most people came to the event, the disco. Not only are all men are worth befriending, (not all women - see previous post. Eren wo...
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Ventilation: Oops, I did it again
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Thursday, March 16, 2006. Oops, I did it again. Is there one thing that you do, that you know you do, that you don't want to do, that you still do? And do you sometimes stop doing it for a while and think it's gone? But then does it creep back up on you, out of the blue, and all of a sudden you're doing it again? And have you tried to control it, but putting attention on it just seems to make it happen more? Well, I know exactly how you feel. Posted by Amy at 12:44 AM. Denver, CO, United States.
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Ventilation: The Blustery-X
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Friday, January 16, 2009. I would like to apologize for what is about to happen, for what has already begun. On behalf of my entire generation, I am so sorry. You may have noticed, Generation X is entering midlife. Our key role in society is shifting from activity to leadership: parenting, teaching, directing institutions, using values. Warning - we are not qualified! There is no solution. In fact, this is not a problem; it is a condition of this moment in time. And this moment has only just begun. You'v...
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Ventilation: October 2005
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Saturday, October 01, 2005. When someone offends you, that doesn’t always mean you need to forgive them. It may mean that you need to bear with. Our I know my rights society has distracted us, and with good intentions, even Christian books and counselors have helped us forget how to just let it go. Not every offense is an occasion to be offended. We have become too sensitive! Forgiveness is for sin, and forbearance is for every other discomfort we experience. Posted by Amy at 2:10 AM. Lyric of the Day.
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Ventilation: Passing
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006. Why are so few of us afraid to fall asleep at night while so many of us are afraid to die? Aren’t these moments very similar, a going from someplace known to someplace unknown? Perhaps we trust the statistics, having slept and woken up safely so many times before. I wonder if babies are afraid to fall asleep. Is that why they need to be rocked and cuddled? Some people have actually found a way to control sleep. Another one of those things I could manage, but don’t; my life.
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Ventilation: Sometimes speaking into the void is all you can do
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Friday, April 04, 2008. Sometimes speaking into the void is all you can do. It’s always the thing that reminds you of yourself that you hate in someone else. I don’t claim to understand friendship, nor do I claim to have ever been a real friend to anyone. At best I can say that there are people in my life with whom I can always pick up where we left off, no questions asked, no apologies necessary. And beyond that, there are people I see and chat to every day. Is any of that friendship? I have no idea.
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Ventilation: Confessions of a snob
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Friday, April 14, 2006. Confessions of a snob. For many years our company held an annual volleyball tournament, and people from all our regional offices gathered for a weekend of ‘team building’. I had just joined the company when the last of these legendary events was taking place. I had only made a handful of friends, but I was not without a boogie partner at the main reason most people came to the event, the disco. Not only are all men are worth befriending, (not all women - see previous post. Eren wo...
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Ventilation: The vain glory of life
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. The vain glory of life. I have heard some interesting views on faith lately, and I must admit, of all the basic virtues that stand opposite the basic vices, faith has been the most difficult for me to settle down with. Let’s review. We’re exploring the theory that everything you do is ultimately driven by good or evil, and more specifically, one of three root sins or one of three root virtues. And further, everyone struggles in particular with one sin throughout his life.
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