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	<itunes:summary>Are you suffering from loss? Feeling alone? Looking for hope? Join Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley, bereaved parent/sibling on their weekly Open to Hope Internet radio show. The Horsleys are founders of Opentohope.com and international experts on finding hope after loss. Their personal journey and the stories of their guests will inspire you and motivate you to again embrace the life that you have been given.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Psalm 23 Creates Healing Connection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grief is the price we pay for love. —Queen Elizabeth II My best friend was dead. My faith was shattered. It was too much for me. I felt that I, too, was dying. I desperately needed a breakthrough—a sign, if you will, that she was safe. The thoughts of her being smashed against a mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Light into a Dark Place: Joining Inmates in Overcoming Hopelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in and out of jail for well over a year. I’m not there because I’ve broken a law or violated probation. I visit the barb wired facility to bring hope into a very dark place. It’s part of my healing process after losing my best friend six years ago in a plane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Grief End? It Takes Grace and Guts to Forgive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace &#38; Guts: What It Takes to Forgive is a book about a topic I have gone to terrific lengths to avoid. This book is not for those ultra-pious Christians who declare that of course we must forgive those who&#8217;ve hurt us because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re called to do, period, so do it already. It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We Must Not Insist That God Do Things Our Way&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Francis &#8212; We all need to be asking God to enlarge our hearts to himself and to others and to increase our trust that he will work in his way in his time. We must not insist that God do things our way, and we can only humbly bow before the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Your Faith Survive a Terrible Loss?</title>
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