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		<title>Heritage of Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2010/01/heritage-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Tuesday, May 17, 1994. The east Texas sun warmed the afternoon air as we buried my 91-year-old grandmother beside her husband in Laws Chapel Cemetery on the outskirts of Atlanta, Texas. Grandpa Horace had preceded her in death by more than 25 years. He had been a faithful gospel preacher during his time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Going To Finish Strong?</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2010/01/are-you-going-to-finish-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiring Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Vujicic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember as a child hearing someone tell a joke (and probably repeating it myself) that went something like this: &#8220;What do you call a kid with no arms and no legs?&#8221; Answer: &#8220;First Base!&#8221; Nick Vujicic (pronounced Voy-a-chich) probably heard lots of jokes like that growing up. Nick was born in December of 1982 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Henry Hughes</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2010/01/patrick-henry-hughes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Greg Byrne]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sillyoldbear.net/?p=2886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if you were born without eyes, and with a tightening of the joints that prevented you from being able to straighten your arms and legs? Would you feel sorry for yourself? Would you consider yourself &#8220;disabled&#8221;? Life would certainly come with a greater level of difficulty. I can&#8217;t even imagine being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The List</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2009/12/the-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Make a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1 Corinthians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1 Thessalonians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pam Nelson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psalms]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sillyoldbear.net/?p=2831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pam Nelson, a dear friend and high school classmate, recently posted to her Facebook status a thought-provoking list of &#8220;to do&#8221; items that will make anyone&#8217;s life more meaningful. I was intrigued as to the source of the list, so I Googled a few of the list items and found several websites with a nearly-identical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Save a Life</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2009/12/to-save-a-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sillyoldbear.net/?p=2693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jake Taylor has it all: friends, fame, a basketball scholarship and the hottest girl in school. What could be better? Enter Roger Dawson. Roger has nothing. No friends. No hope. Nothing but putdowns and getting pushed aside. Things couldn&#8217;t get worse &#8230; could they? Jake and Roger were best friends when they were kids. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sing Your Song</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2009/12/sing-your-song/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2009/12/sing-your-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, Walt Disney Pictures released a movie called “Mighty Joe Young”. The movie was about a huge gorilla named Joe living in the jungles of Africa. Joe is brought to the United States to save him from being killed by poachers, and he eventually ends up back in Africa on a wildlife refuge created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Life Count</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2009/11/make-your-life-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are dead and gone, what will your life have counted for? Will the world be a better place because you were here? One of my biggest fears in life is mediocrity &#8211; just sort of drifting through life without ever really accomplishing anything worthwhile. I don&#8217;t want to come to the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the World</title>
		<link>http://www.sillyoldbear.net/2007/06/changing-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul O'Rear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to make a list of people who have made a difference in the world, who would you include? I recently posed that question to a large group of high school students at a summer camp. Their list included many names you would expect, plus a few surprises. Martin Luther King, Jr. Benjamin [...]]]></description>
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