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		<title>It&#8217;s Go Time! Mark 1:16-20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my students, trained as an attorney, told me of an article she recently read in a journal for Alabama lawyers. It was written by a judge and dealt with the top ten things attorneys should never say to judges. The first is “With all due respect, your honor.” Because it is a prelude to disagreeing or objecting, not respect.  The second is “I’m not prepared today because…..”  I don’t know what the other 8 are. Two is enough.

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		<title>Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh: Get Them While Supplies Last!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ They stride into Jerusalem like a person wandering bare footed into a snake pit, asking “Where’s the baby king?” Like someone strolling into a public park looking for the guy they’re going to buy a bike from on Craig’s list, stumbling into a drug deal.

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		<title>First Things First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ One night this past week I had a very vivid dream. I was running- where I didn’t know, I just knew that I had to get there fast. I was running down a long stretch of road, and I was clutching a golden nugget in my hand.  It slipped from my grasp as I ran. ]]></description>
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		<title>Grocery Store Checkout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago when my husband and I got married in York, Pennsylvania, I asked a friend from seminary to read Scripture. She and I had both just graduated from Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. I remember that she drove all the way from Texas to the wedding and read l Corinthians 13 like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkabout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walkabout
As a recovering workaholic I’m trying to schedule more spontaneous, leisure activities into my week.
I know irony. Scheduled spontaneity. Anyway, a friend and I had talked about walking a couple times a week now that the relentlessly oppressive summer heat in Texas has given way to October coolness.  She, by her own admission, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Beware of The Bears&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As   I stood there looking at the black bear warning sign, I pictured me being confronted by a black bear. I wondered- what would I do? I would smile at the bear, gesture for it to hold off on making its next move for just a moment, pull out my I phone and look up “What to do when confronted by a black bear.” Maybe it would have been better to look that up before I started the hike.]]></description>
		<link>http://experts.patheos.com/expert/alycemckenzie/2011/08/28/beware-of-the-bears/</link>
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		<title>Swimming in the Jury Pool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got called for jury duty last week. Again. 
They never call you at a good time- when nothing is going on and you welcome the diversion.
When I got called three years ago, I went grudgingly- I had a heavy course load and lots of workshops to prepare for. But then when I got into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Loving the Body&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As I sat in the heat holding one, then two, sometimes three young children at one time, I couldn’t help but think of Paul’s beautiful image for the Church as the Body of Christ. ]]></description>
		<link>http://experts.patheos.com/expert/alycemckenzie/2011/06/27/loving-the-bodyl/</link>
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		<title>Separation Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He looked up from where he sat in his high chair eating a pink cupcake with an unmistakeable expression on his face. It said, "Why are you interrupting our party?"]]></description>
		<link>http://experts.patheos.com/expert/alycemckenzie/2011/06/23/separation-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Good Deed at Dillards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had no business being in the Dillards in the first place. I have more than enough clothes in my closet at home.  But if I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to be the fashion angel this woman needed in that moment. ]]></description>
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