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		<title>Frustration Tolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I taught math for a living for several years. I still feel bad for my former students sometimes&#8230; But, like many, I couldn&#8217;t help but see the disparity between my Korean students and my American students. The Korean students were almost inevitably in the top of my class. I certainly had some smart American students, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1105&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prophecy, Fulfill Thyself</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/prophecy-fulfill-thyself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failure Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-fulfilling prophecies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching Failure Club online lately. It&#8217;s a short, ongoing documentary series that depicts a group of people supporting each other as they try to fulfill a potentially outrageous goal for themselves. They call it Failure Club because they&#8217;re acknowledging that, along the way, they&#8217;re going to fail, probably numerous times, and they&#8217;re trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Cold Feet: A Brief Meditation on Growth of Body and Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spiritual formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Willard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embodied soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Palamas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate exercising. I realized a few years ago that exercising actually causes my body to feel quite similarly to what I feel when I&#8217;m anxious. So why would I intentionally make myself feel like I&#8217;m anxious? That just seems like madness. Yet lately, I&#8217;ve been getting cold feet. I mean that quite literally. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Streams of Spiritual Formation</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/multiple-streams-of-spiritual-formation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the formation community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like there are a lot of different approaches to spiritual formation. Different teachers and authors seem to stress different things while still calling them all &#8220;spiritual formation&#8221;. Nowhere, however, have I seen anyone (perhaps for lack of trying, I&#8217;ll confess) distinguish the various flavors of spiritual formation in very distinct forms. More, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1078&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incurring the Wrath of Introverts</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/incurring-the-wrath-of-introverts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[introversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[introvert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meyers briggs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a trend lately. Maybe it&#8217;s always been there, or maybe technology has just created a new platform for it. Hard to say. Whether it&#8217;s new or not, I&#8217;ve seen a fair number of instances of introverts on the internet telling the world: this is how it&#8217;s going to be. They&#8217;re tired of extroverts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1070&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So What Are Introversion and Extroversion Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/so-what-are-introversion-and-extroversion-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spiritual formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extroversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extrovert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[introversion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meyers briggs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think discussions about personality types have been happening for centuries. I&#8217;ve even seen it argued that Gregory the Great in the 6th century made what might be the first personality sorter, though there were elements that we certainly wouldn&#8217;t use today. Introversion and extroversion are a significant pair that show up in discussion, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1068&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Basis for Love</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/the-basis-for-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spiritual formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love of God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think many of us misunderstand love. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a matter of defining it wrong so much as responding to it or seeking it in a way that doesn&#8217;t reflect how it actually works. When we&#8217;re first trying to make sense of the world, we make connections that create order in our heads, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1063&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Embrace of Agape</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-embrace-of-agape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eros]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Socrates&#8217; eros strived after the good. Christian agape embraces the sinful. - Paul Gooch (paraphrased) If God is indeed love (agape), then He embraces the sinful. It doesn&#8217;t matter how sinful you are then, you are still embraced. Something to rest in for the day.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lousy Listening: Job&#8217;s Miserable Comforters</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/lousy-listening-jobs-miserable-comforters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spiritual formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the art of listening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The old Henny Youngman line seems appropriate here: &#8220;They&#8217;re not a complete loss. They can always serve as a horrible example.&#8221; The book of Job is typically looked at as being about suffering. Lately, though, I&#8217;ve been reading and thinking about it from the standpoint of listening. Job&#8217;s companions listen the same way that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Delight in Us</title>
		<link>http://soulformation.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/gods-delight-in-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creation of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god's delight in man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julian of norwich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soulformation.wordpress.com/?p=1054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy Julian of Norwich: For I saw in the same revelation that if the blessed trinity could have created man&#8217;s soul any better, any fairer, any nobler than it was created, the Trinity would not have been fully pleased with the creation of man&#8217;s soul. But because it made man&#8217;s soul as beautiful, as good, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soulformation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8416559&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=soulformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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