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	<title>In Word</title>
	<link>http://bethmaisano.com</link>
	<description>&#34;Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.&#34; - 1 Timothy 4:12</description>
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		<title>In The Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have any of you bloggers ever caught yourself thinking that life is just too busy to blog?  I have.  Sometimes, life just plain gets in the way.
Then I stop.  And laugh.  And realize how ridiculous that is.
What would a blog be without a life behind it, anyway?

Snowfall in Texas?  Major news story.
All that to say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/03/in-the-way/</link>
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		<title>Blessed Beyond Measure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A speech and debate tournament is like a magnifying glass.  When you put hundreds of people together for three stressful days, everything tends to show up clearer than it would otherwise&#8212;that means the bad things right along with the good things.  For now, though, I want to focus on the good things.
There are so many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/blessed-beyond-measure/</link>
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		<title>Reality Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I wonder why hard things have to be so ridiculously hard.  I mean, why is it that &#8220;doing the right thing&#8221; inevitably means doing something that just doesn&#8217;t come naturally?  Why is it so difficult?
It&#8217;s easy to forget the obvious.  Check out Philippians 4:13&#8212;and read it for real:
&#8220;I can do everything through him who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/reality-check/</link>
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		<title>Love Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, our family grew a little bit bigger, a little bit louder, and a whole lot cuter.  It might be a brief change, or it might stick around for awhile&#8212;but however long it lasts, I&#8217;m going to enjoy it.
We started working on our foster care license last fall, but didn&#8217;t get everything done till this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/love-me/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: When God Writes Your Love Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always believed in purity&#8212;physical purity, emotional purity, everything.  I wear a purity ring.  I don&#8217;t date.  I dress modestly.  In short, I&#8217;ve got it down.  Right?
If you&#8217;re anything like me, a book called &#8220;When God Writes Your Love Story&#8221; might strike you as a) freakishly old-sounding, or b) completely unnecessary, since we all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/when-god-writes-your-love-story/</link>
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		<title>Strong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weakness and strength&#8212;strange that two opposites should be so unavoidably wrapped up in a person&#8217;s life.  Over the past year, I&#8217;ve realized more and more just how weak I really am.  But at the same time, it&#8217;s only when I realize my weakness&#8230;that I see His strength.
This was written last year.  I&#8217;m not a poet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/strong-2/</link>
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		<title>Construction Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chances are you&#8217;ve noticed that things around here are a little different lately&#8211;rest assured that all will be in order shortly.  Er, eventually.  In the meantime, sit back and laugh as Beth has fun playing with WordPress.
~The Management
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		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/02/construction-zone/</link>
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		<title>Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is the title of a really cool book.
&#8230;is a magic number, according to Schoolhouse Rock.
&#8230;is the number of years Beth has been blogging.
Normally I might pull out some cool statistics or something, but frankly, the statistics for this blog aren&#8217;t very cool and are generally single-digit numbers.  Ah, well.
Instead, you get this post, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/01/three/</link>
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		<title>So It Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought this blog was dead?  Mostly, but not beyond resuscitation.  Those of you who comprise the handful of daily visitors&#8230;whoever you are, you rock.
This past week was a milestone in the world of speech and debate, with our first ever qualifying tournament of 2010.  It was spectacular.  Need I say more? (And, yes.  For those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2010/01/so-it-begins-2/</link>
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		<title>Quotables: 2009 Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years running, this blog has celebrated the New Year by remembering the old one&#8212;that is, remembering a few of the quotes and conversations that made me laugh so hard that I wrote them down.  So without further ado, I give you the 2009 Quotables:

&#8220;I was tempted with the same tempt as you.&#8221; ~Anna
&#8220;If God [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bethmaisano.com/2009/12/quotables-2009-edition/</link>
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