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	<title>Abundant Horizons: living each day as a new beginning</title>
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	<description>This blog is designed to share spiritual applications and sources from which I have learned &#34;the secret&#34; of an abundant and joyful life.  My intention is to help anyone who desires a better way of living to have the tools to open doors toward a more fulfilling life.</description>
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		<title>The purpose of Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patience has to be one of the virtues we all have a hard time practicing in our lives.  Life today has become embued with speed and busyness.  When adrenaline is driving us internally it is extremely hard to exhibit patience and keep up with the pace of the world around us.  Yet patience is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=419</link>
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		<title>The Wastefulness of Worry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that I have covered this subject a lot in the past.  But I find that it bears continuous repeating because it is a habit that many of us feel we have no control over.  This is a lie that we tell ourselves.  We do have the choice to worry or not to worry.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=409</link>
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		<title>The Prayer of One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am amazed how much apathy, anger, frustration and fear I encounter these days.  I realize that the world offers its challenges.  But, the only reason it appears people are so deeply affected by all of this is because of our heighten exposure to immediate information and media speed.  The world has always offered its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=401</link>
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		<title>Try a spin with Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so blessed to live in the Pacific Northwest.  We have greenery year round that begins the tip of the Western part of the United States that leads to Alaska, a state whose beauty is beyond words.  But I, like you, sometimes forget the natural beauty that surrounds me everyday.  Instead, I get caught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=395</link>
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		<title>Divine Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if everything in life was always just.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know anyone above the age of two that hasn&#8217;t ocasionally felt life was sometimes unfair.  Some of us walk around actually feeling like we are targeted for unfair treatment.  It seems that if something could go wrong, it invariably does go wrong.  Needless to say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=382</link>
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		<title>Expecting the best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today and everyday I expect the best.  Wonderful things are happening to me now.  Everything I do turns into good for myself and others.  Wonderful things are bound to happen and they do. This is one of my most favorite affirmations (prayers) that I verbally claim out loud everyday.  What is so amazing about affirmations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=378</link>
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		<title>Power of Positive Prophecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many times do we walk around and make statements that are negative in nature and then find ourselves surprised when the outcome is exactly as stated.  Do you realize that every time you verbally state a point of view, a declaration (positive or negative), or a prediction, you are actually prophesying the future for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=371</link>
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		<title>Bitterness: a festering to well being</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a small devotional that is called &#8220;Experiencing God: day-by-day&#8221;, written by Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby, there are spiritual thoughts for each day of the year.  The scripture-based thought of the day for July 10 was addressing the concept of bitterness.  I will quote the entire thought and then comment afterwards: Looking carefully lest anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=360</link>
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		<title>The Giving Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a wonderful article in the July 5, 2010 issue of Fortune magazine.  The cover shows Bill &#38; Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet under the heading &#8220;The $600 Billion Challenge&#8221;.  The story is about the three wealthy individuals goal to create a movement where the super wealthy of this world would commit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=348</link>
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		<title>Control:  Living a life of delusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it amazing to see how many people walk around this great Earth thinking they have the ultimate control of things in their lives.  They think that if they plan things out, live by precise schedules, make their opinions known to others (insisting in many cases that others also comply with their opinion), making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abundanthorizons.com/?p=326</link>
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