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	<description>Susan Gammage:  offering Bahá&#039;í perspectives on day-to-day life situations, and recovery from violence and abuse.</description>
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		<title>Relationships without God at the Core &#8211; a Baha&#8217;i Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my blog posting “Primary Relationships”, I looked at how God comes first, your spouse second and everyone else after that.  A reader asked some very important questions: the rest of the non-Baha&#8217;i world that is either atheist or agnostic seems to believe that familial relationships can be cultivated without God&#8217;s assistance. While I believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Relationships &#8211; a Baha&#8217;i Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Recently a reader wrote asking for suggestions of how to get closer to his mother and how to have his new found love accept him as a Baha&#8217;i.  This caused me to reflect on the nature of our primary relationships and how to get clear about them.  Hope my response to him helps you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naw Ruz Program</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/naw-ruz-program</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baha'i New Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#160; Click Here for Introductory Music: &#160; &#160; The Bahá&#8217;í New Year (or Naw Ruz, which means “new day”), is the only Baha&#8217;i Holy Day with no direct relation to the life of a Messenger of God.  Like the ancient Persian New Year, it’s associated with the spring equinox, that first day of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working through Emotions – a Bahá&#8217;í Perspective</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/working-through-emotions-a-bahai-perspective</link>
		<comments>http://susangammage.com/working-through-emotions-a-bahai-perspective#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse and Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests and Difficulties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Marian &#160; I had a good session with my counsellor this week. These sessions often inspire me to do research either in a book or online &#8211; I use Ocean a fair bit when inspired to find something. So I was thinking about the Hidden Word that says; &#8220;Thy heart is My home, sanctify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Gap to be Crossed &#8211; Lessons from the Baha&#8217;i Martyrs</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/a-great-gap-to-be-crossed</link>
		<comments>http://susangammage.com/a-great-gap-to-be-crossed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crisis and Victory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martyrs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martyrdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#160; By Elizabeth Rochester &#160; Over the years, my experience has been that Baha’is from Iran have a much deeper and more intense response to stories of the martyrs than do people, even Baha’is,  from the West.  There is a deep grief combined with an undying admiration; there is nothing negative or guarded in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bahá&#8217;í Fast:  It’s not Just about the Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The following posting came to me privately as a comment on the blog posting “How to Eat During the Bahá&#8217;í Fast”.  It was too long to include as a comment, so with her permission, I’ve posted it as a blog posting in its own right. By Maria Chouchtari Growing up as a Christian, I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Process of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis and Victory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge of Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Temptation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["autobiography in 5 chapters"; change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard this story in a group for Adult Children of Alcoholics, nearly 25 years ago, and was delighted to find it again tonight.  If you aren’t familiar with it, I hope you enjoy it!  If you are, I hope you enjoy reading it again.   An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters A poem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Go of Stress</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/letting-go-of-stress</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detachment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Estrangement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put the Glass Down By Dr.Claude Shema-Rutagengwa, Pr.Dr.Udaya Kumar and Pr.Dr.Dietrich http://www.author-me.com/fict07/puttheglass.htm Once a professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, “how much do you think this glass weighs? ’50gms!’?…’100gms…’125gms’…. The students answered, “I really don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Near Death Experiences &#8211; Baha&#8217;i Resources</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/near-death-experiences-bahai-resources</link>
		<comments>http://susangammage.com/near-death-experiences-bahai-resources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[near death experiences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Recently someone asked me about what the Baha&#8217;i Faith has to say about near-death experiences.  I don&#8217;t have any knowledge on this topic, but a quick search indicated that a lot of Baha&#8217;is had written and spoken about it.  As a result, I decided to put together a list of resources, which could easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrimage and Marriage &#8211; a Baha&#8217;i Perspective</title>
		<link>http://susangammage.com/pilgrimage-and-marriage-a-bahai-perspective</link>
		<comments>http://susangammage.com/pilgrimage-and-marriage-a-bahai-perspective#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gammage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pilgrimage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by a couple who had a chance to go on a 3-day visit to the Bahá&#8217;í World Centre.  Neither had been on pilgrimage before, and considered this the next best thing.  The husband wanted to go, and the wife did not.  They were at a stalemate and wondered if I could [...]]]></description>
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