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		<title>Quick Update</title>
		<link>http://operationmeaning.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/quick-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Kansas City this past Friday for my internship with
Focus North America.  So far, I really like the city. I  will be
doing an official blog for Focus North America on its site
 (www.focusna.org). This should probably be up and running by
next Monday.
I will still use this blog to post poems and other such items. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=210&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City, Here I Come!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 17:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My back has recovered pretty well, and I can now travel. Tomorrow I leave to go to Kansas City, Mo. to intern with the new panorthodox organization called FOCUS NORTH AMERICA. (www.focusna.org)
I will try to post updates on my blog.
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		<title>Bread of Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 

 
And they
they ate the bread of angels
that fell down from the sky
that appeared daily
to feed their hunger inside.
 
And they
they walked around in circles
for forty years
but their feet did not swell
nor did their clothes wear thin.
 
But I
I do not ask for the bread of angels
I do not ask that my feet never swell
or my clothes never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=204&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
And our hands tell the story of our lives
without words they form more powerful images
than the tongue could ever speak.
 
Big hands, small hands
gentle hand, rough hands
soft hands, calloused hands,
sweaty hands, chapped hands.
 
Hands are not simple
they are more complex
than what meets the eye.
 
Hands are alive.
They reach out to comfort.
They recoil in fear.
They are instruments of kindness,
messengers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=198&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Wandering Soul</title>
		<link>http://operationmeaning.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/my-wandering-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[redemption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My soul is like the wind.
It rushes
strays
blows violently
dances softly
but it doesn’t stay
in one place.
 
Sometimes I wonder
why God moved so far from me
why He wandered down the road
abandoning me along the way.
 
But God is a rock.
He doesn’t move.
It is me who flitters and flies
who scatters in all directions
looking for, longing for
what I have already found in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=195&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Suddenly silence engulfs me
and the floodgates of fear
burst forth something invisibly eerie.
 
My vision becomes darkened
no images
flash across the corneas of my eyes
to distract me
from this loneliness
I feel inside.
 
I don’t want to be here.
I need a diversion.
There is only me here.
A me that I have never encountered before.
 
I don’t want to think.
I don’t want to analyze
who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=186&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://operationmeaning.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/new-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am excited. This summer I will be the first intern of  the brand new Orthodox social action minsitry FOCUS NORTH AMERICA.
Listen to this Interview with Fr. Justin Matthews, CEO of FOCUS NORTH AMERICA, on Ancient Faith Radio.
I was supposed to have left for Kansas City, MO on May 6.
However, my plans were not God&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=183&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is Sacred</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 20:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything  is sacred.
Everything is holy.
But to a people with a defiled mind
nothing is sacred;
nothing is holy.
 
Every foot step I take
is upon the altar
of the Most High God.
For everything is His
and He created all.
 
We have abused and maligned
His gifts, His handiwork.
We have shredded His masterpieces
and have tried to eradicated His Image.
 
Yet His Image
lays inside every human.
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=179&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Without Conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I find myself
standing before You
raising my filthy hands
towards your immaculate light.
My face, hands, body, and feet
are sullied by my thoughts
by my transgressions.
Each day I wallow in mire.
But my mind is deluded
I do not see the mire.
I cannot fathom
that my shower of love
is filled with the muddied waters
of wanting something in return,
a sea of ulterior [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=148&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost</title>
		<link>http://operationmeaning.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I found it
stuck under the table
next to discarded gum
that had lost its taste.
Yesterday, I found it
in the bottom
of the garbage
stomped on
and stained.
Last week, I found it
abandoned in the attic
cast away
for the next
generation to find.
Last month, I found it
under my bed
swept into a hidden place
out of carelessness.
Last year, I found it
buried in the trunk of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operationmeaning.wordpress.com&blog=2194062&post=137&subd=operationmeaning&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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