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		<title>Under Used Talent: Absent Without Leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in church while the words of the gospel lesson wafted about something clobbered me on the head; the under used talent. Momentarily stunned into a moment of reflection I wondered, how often have I sat glumly listening as someone else preached? Even now, days after that Sunday, I find myself retracing events that led [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=117&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sermon to Wake the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words, “Lazarus, come forth”, move me. There are other phrases, scents, and sounds that stir me as well but these words re-kindle a deep seated urge to stand up and demand a hearing. It has been seventeen long years since I began a self imposed exile from the pulpit; I retired. That’s not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=105&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am a Cubmaster: Reason No. 235</title>
		<link>http://whimzical.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/why-i-am-a-cubmaster-reason-no-235/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you notice that days fly by the older you get? I remember getting out of school for the summer and I believe that June to the end of August seemed as long as September to Christmas. Not anymore! Walking through my garden yesterday morning I was acutely aware of summer&#8230; in a good way. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=98&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Light</title>
		<link>http://whimzical.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/life-in-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun shines over my shoulder. Cascades of light and warmth spill across me and to the north I see long shadows of myself on the floor. I cannot look into the light but I know of Light’s embrace. I cannot see God but I accept that God is near all the same. Filed under: hope, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=97&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Blah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me be clear, I love snow. I love seeing flakes accumulate in ominous piles foreshadowing a frozen end of days. I like huge snow-ball sized globs of it falling on balsam and fir lending an air of Christmas to the early days of Lent. I love snow. What I do not love is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=87&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brine the Bird &#8211; The Biggest Secret to Moist and Delicious Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting at lunch on Friday a colleague remarked, &#8220;We don&#8217;t like turkey, it&#8217;s just too dry.&#8221; This reminded me of the epic &#8220;National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation&#8221;, &#8220;Home for the Holidays&#8221;, and all the other movies that feature infamous turkey moments of one kind or another.  It always strikes me as strange. My home is more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=73&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Started in Beekeeping</title>
		<link>http://whimzical.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/getting-started-in-beekeeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked, in a recent comment, for some tips on getting started. The first thing to do is find out about local beekeepers. In the case of my friend in Savannah, the Coastal Empire Beekeepers Association looks like a good bet. I didn&#8217;t see a web site for them but there is a public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=69&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Omaha</title>
		<link>http://whimzical.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/omaha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t have much to say. Spent the day in Des Moines and drove west just so I can fly east tomorrow. Filed under: Who knows? Tagged: omaha travel random<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=63&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wet Water</title>
		<link>http://whimzical.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/wet-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[None who know me will be surprised when I admit I have done many foolish things. Once I rode a bicycle across a high exposed ridge in driving rain, deafened by thunder and hounded by lightening with a lust for more than bare rock and scattered trees. The occasion for today&#8217;s commentary was my advice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=53&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Divine Recluse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilkerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.&#8221; - Emily Dickinson A philosophy of religion professor I greatly admired said to me that &#8220;God is either in everything, or in nothing.&#8221; I have often thought of this and think I will never let go, entirely, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whimzical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054860&amp;post=34&amp;subd=whimzical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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