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		<title>The Choice: Criticize &amp; Complain? Or Contribute &amp; Create?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/13/creator-or-critic/</link>
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		<title>Are You Flying By A True Horizon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the walking on water story.  Seriously.  Love it.  Most people, when they start talking about it, like to focus in on the part about getting out of the boat.  If you want to walk on water, you’ve got to ‘step out in faith’, you’ve got to get out of the boat.  It’s true, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/12/truefalsehorizon/</link>
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		<title>His Mercies are New Every Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I head off to hang with a group of women I’ve not been able to hang with for a few weeks, this video came to mind.  I not only love the words, the message, the ‘his mercies are new every morning’ part (ha) — but love seeing this group of women having fun singing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/09/his-mercies-are-new-every-morning/</link>
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		<title>Helping Others Smile at the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a few comments/emails about the post I asked Desiree if I could use here on human trafficking.  The comments go something along the lines of “if we’re supposed to smile at the future, isn’t that sort of depressing”? Well yes.  It is.  Human trafficking is depressing.  Poverty is depressing.  The fact that nearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/08/helpotherssmileatthefuture/</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness &amp; Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Today’s guest post comes to us from the lovely Viviana Sutton.  Vivana is an uber-multi-tasker who keeps things moving as the Content and Community Director over at WorkHerWay.com.  She’s an amazing and gifted woman, with a great perspective and a lot of value to say.  ;-)) Whenever misbehaving kids get sent to the office at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/07/forgiveness-consequences/</link>
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		<title>Letter to My Younger Self (Advice for Future Generations)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at WorkHerWay.com, Carolyn posed the question ‘what do we need to be doing to raise girls for success?’ that led to a few of us bandying about the other question:  what do we wish we could tell our younger selves? I’m pretty lucky.  I had parents who placed my value and worth in who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/05/letter-to-my-younger-self-advice-for-future-generations/</link>
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		<title>Be the Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, over at the old blog, I wrote a post called “Well-Behaved Can Make History.”  (The full piece is still up on my ‘expert contributor’s page’ at www.workherway.com  here.) In it, I largely spoke about women’s roles in culture and in the workplace, and how they’d evolved from the Mad-Men-like stay-at-home moms and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/05/be-the-change/</link>
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		<title>Tell Them That I Love Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a preacher.  Nor do I pretend to be.  I have no special dispensation.  I don’t intend for this space to become a series of sermons. But I do have a story.  And it’s Easter.  And given that great commission, it seems appropriate that maybe we take time here — from time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/04/tell-them-that-i-love-them/</link>
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		<title>Getting Through The Wall, The Plateau &amp; Past the Dip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when I wonder.  I wonder what it must have been like on this day.  You know, that day ‘in between’.  Can you imagine?   Not just watching the crucifixion, but the loss of hope.  Everything they’d been working for and had faith in, they’d just seen come to an end.  (So they thought.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/03/getting-through-the-wall-the-plateau-past-the-dip/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Hope Big Enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been engaged in a great deal of reflection the past couple of days, as many around the world are. As I reread the different accounts of the crucifixion today, something struck me.  Here’s the way Mark tells it: “And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Ha! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://future-smiling.com/2010/04/02/is-your-hope-big-enough/</link>
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