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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Awakening Your Purpose</title><link>http://www.ether.comhttp://blogs.ether.com/Thoughtful Insights</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Debug Build: 52163.161)</generator><item><title>Reaching for success</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Reaching-for-success/529126.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:529126</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/529126.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=529126</wfw:commentRss><description>Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. - Oprah Winfrey&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=529126" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Intention without action</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Intention-without-action/526894.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:526894</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/526894.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=526894</wfw:commentRss><description>"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless." Caroline Myss Author of Entering The Castle &lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=526894" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Each Day</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Each-Day/526605.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:526605</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/526605.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=526605</wfw:commentRss><description>"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success."

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, Novelist
&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=526605" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Weather</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/The-Weather/526234.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:526234</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/526234.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=526234</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEATHER REPORT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~BJ Gallagher&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Any day I'm vertical&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a good day"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;...that's what I always say.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you ask me,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"How are you?"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll answer, "GREAT!" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;because in saying so, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I make it so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Life gives me dark clouds and rain, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I appreciate the moisture &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;that brings a soft curl to my hair.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Life gives me sunshine, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I gratefully turn my face up &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;to feel its warmth on my cheeks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Life brings fog, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I hug my sweater around me &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;and give thanks for the cool shroud of mystery &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;that makes the familiar seem different and intriguing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Life brings snow, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I dash outside to catch the first flakes on my tongue, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;relishing the icy miracle that is a snowflake.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life's events and experiences &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;are like the weather - &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;they come and go, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;no matter what my preference.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, what the heck?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I might as well decide to enjoy them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color=#808080&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;For indeed, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;there IS a time for every purpose &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;under Heaven.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font face=Tahoma color=#808080&gt;&lt;em&gt;And each season brings its own unique blessings.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=526234" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Longing for God</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Longing-for-God/525983.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:525983</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/525983.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=525983</wfw:commentRss><description>My soul thirsts for you my God.  When your soul thirsts for God what do you do?&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=525983" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Favour and Grace</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Favour-and-Grace/525872.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:525872</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/525872.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=525872</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color=#006400&gt;I will be with you and will favor you with blessings.&amp;nbsp; Gen. 26:3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=525872" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Your selfhood is sacred</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Your-selfhood-is-sacred/509824.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:509824</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/509824.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=509824</wfw:commentRss><description>When you listen to your deepest self you will realize that your selfhood is sacred.  That you are valuable beyond your job, your material belongings, your titles.  You are valued because you are a human being.&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=509824" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Unity</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Unity/509568.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:509568</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/509568.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=509568</wfw:commentRss><description>Unity is the one thing that helps bring about positive change.  Are there problems you are facing - don't face them alone.  Look for friends, make a call, together with others you can bring about change.  Strive for change that promotes a better world for all and enriches your life at the same time.&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=509568" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Reality</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Reality/509512.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:509512</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/509512.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=509512</wfw:commentRss><description>Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. Sometimes, we need to shape our reality to create the kind of world we would like to have. Based on being loving, kind, thoughtful and considerate. Each day, I hope you will spend some time thinking about what it is you have to be grateful in your life. Let hope come into where there is darkness and see the beauty of the world around you. &lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=509512" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Poem All Those Who Left For New Lands Will Relate To</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/A-Poem-All-Those-Who-Left-For-New-Lands-Will-Relate-To/508938.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:508938</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/508938.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=508938</wfw:commentRss><description>We left - Who's right?

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We Left - You stayed
Both in our own way, a price has been paid.
Our lives so different from way back then.
How often do we say "Remember When…."
You still fight to save your home
We started fresh - were so alone.
Your children are raised where you grew up.
Mine would love a Blue Heeler pup!
You live on the land where your life began.
We made our choice…. Yes…. We ran!
The grass was greener on the other side
….yet Our history, Our home - Our constant pride!
We learnt new ways - You struggled on.
We sang a new anthem - new tune, new song!
You stayed at home - it felt so right!
We learnt to listen to new sounds at night.
The stress. Despair and Fear all gone…..
But who's to say what's right or wrong!
We left - you stayed…
The choices made.
Our futures chart a different course
Yet all still held by an unseen force!
Although we left and went away,
I recall….. and my thoughts begin to stray….
Remember what was, what should have been…
The sights my children have never seen.
My heart's with you day and night
Prayers said for you to achieve what's right!
One day to rebuild this promised land
I long one day to hold your hand.
But - we left - you stayed
Decisions made.

© Pam Crowther
26.07.01
Pam Crowther&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=508938" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Changing history</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Changing-history/508672.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:508672</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/508672.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=508672</wfw:commentRss><description>Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the hisory of this generation - John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 35th President of the United States.&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=508672" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Overcoming bad habits</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/Overcoming-bad-habits/508249.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:508249</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/508249.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=508249</wfw:commentRss><description>Do you need to overcome a bad habit?

I can help you with practical steps to apply to your daily life to get you started:

 - Hang around with people with habits you want to emulate.
 - Form a spiritual practice to help strengthen you.
 - Set aside the money and time you need to get professional support if required.
 - Realize a crises point will probably have to come before you reach rock bottom and have to change.
&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=508249" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>The New Decade!</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/The-New-Decade/502767.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:502767</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/502767.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=502767</wfw:commentRss><description>I hope that this new decade is the one you realize your highest and most magnificent vision of yourself..&lt;p&gt;
I came that you may have and enjoy life and have it in abundance, until it overflows - John 10:10. &lt;p&gt;

Follow the way of love - Corinthians 14:1. &lt;p&gt;

If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to your mountain, "MOVE!" and it WILL move... and NOTHING will be impossible for YOU!- Matthew 17:20 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=502767" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>When values are strong</title><link>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Thoughtful_Insights/When-values-are-strong/502404.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8ca05964-da1c-4176-9dbc-9d0bc609bb83:502404</guid><dc:creator>Thoughtful Insights</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/comments/502404.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/blogs/24794975/commentrss.aspx?PostID=502404</wfw:commentRss><description>When values are strong, they provide a solid foundation to return to when challenges arise in life.  Like the house built on the rock that Jesus talks about, because a person's values are strong, the wind and gales do not throw down the house.  The foundation is solid.  But when a person's values are not strong, like the house built on the sand, when challenges come the house quickly sinks.  (Matt 7:24).   &lt;img src="http://www.ether.com/CommunityServer/aggbug.aspx?PostID=502404" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>
