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	<title>Sage Reflections</title>
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	<description>on the spiritual dimension of our earthly lives.</description>
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		<title>We are spiritual beings having a human experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything inside our bodies that is sensitive and alive is spirit.  And we are sensitive in our bodies from head to toe.  When body and spirit separate, which we call dying, we are still ourselves, and we are still alive.&#8221; (Heavenly Secrets #5883, Emanual Swedenborg)
We are all born and we all will die.  And in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=76</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you love me now?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I awoke this morning wanting to ask God the question, &#8220;Do you love me now?&#8221;
In the well known story of the prodigal son, we hear the story of how we sometimes choose to separate ourselves from God.  We say, &#8220;thanks for the gift of life, I&#8217;m out of here,&#8221; leaving our father&#8217;s house, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=53</link>
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		<title>What does it mean to be eternal?</title>
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This Easter I posed the question;
Would your days unfold differently if you woke up each morning and reminded yourself that you are an eternal being?
In an article in Time Magazine, a 1997 study was published that reported 81% of Americans responded affirmatively to the question  &#8221;Do you believe in the existence of heaven, where people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Death and Resurrection: Can we be here now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.  We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don&#8217;t really get solved.  They come together and they fall apart.  Then they come together again and fall apart again. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Extravagant Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a limit to everything.  I so quickly get to the bottom of the ice cream container and my checking account responds quite predictably to the purchases I make.  I had a hospice client who would almost repetitively  say &#8220;There&#8217;s a limit to it!&#8221; when describing the various ways in which her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=54</link>
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		<title>God&#8217;s will is that I find my deepest joy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ When the Rev. Dorothea Harvey passed into the spiritual world last week she  left quite a legacy as the first woman ordained in the Swedenborgian Church.
We honored her in worship here in Fryeburg, reading the wonderful excerpt  that was printed in her obituary where Dorothea offered the lovely and  profound statement:
 &#8220;God&#8217;s will is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Perfectionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you suffer from perfectionism?
When you miss the turn to a store you wanted to go to do you say to yourself  &#8221;Oh, well&#8230; I didn&#8217;t really need to go,&#8221; instead of turning around to go back?  When you miss a day with a new exercise routine  do you then feel so ashamed and dissapointed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=39</link>
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		<title>The unknown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend just about every day with people who are dying.  People hear that I work for a hospice and they often recoil.  &#8220;How can you do that work?&#8221;  &#8220;How can you be around all those dying people?&#8221;  I have stopped trying to come up with answers.  We&#8217;re all surrounded by dying people.  All of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Going naked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To journey with someone as they pass into the next life.  To say goodbye.  To forgive.  To be thankful.  To accept.  Wow.  This job of walking with the dying and their families in hospice is truly humbling. 
I&#8217;m not quite sure what to reflect on it all yet as the newness of this work settles in.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=32</link>
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		<title>New Job!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, so, so sorry&#8230;..  I have been a BAD blogger.  Over three weeks and not a Sage reflection to speak of&#8230;.. ugh&#8230; I could hide my head in shame but it&#8217;s time to speak again!  To re-enter the blogosphere and trust that while three weeks may seem like an eternity for a blogger, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sagereflections.org/?p=31</link>
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