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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>&#8216;Splendor to Offset the Gloom&#8217; &#8211; Even After Childloss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss my son, beyond imagining. Compounded by the memories that continue to amass. Additionally, the past has become a Menagerie. Expounded by moments that have already passed. As Time moves on, slow and emphatically. I can not bare to consider how long I might last. Because the loneliness is so immense, it is staggering. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Barrens of Grief, Hope Still Blooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing a child is like falling into a fathomless pit, a deep well of sorrow that leaves an enormous void in the center of life. One moment, you are on top of the world, an instant later you are plummeting into the deepest depths of despair. Tumbling like a stone into utter desolation. Where sorrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem: Music In Mourning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~~Music in Mourning~~ Oh how misery sings to me, in wailing moans of agony. With shrieks and groans as overtones, within a dismal symphony. And woe; it rings from somber strings, and echoes with the winds. It rumbles like a perpetual storm, amidst weeping violins. And lo, how confounding it can be. Deciphering tones that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Plunge to Honor Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a well over a year now since my life suddenly plunged into despair. Losing my son was devastating on every level, and life continues to spiral out of control. Every day, I fall a little further from the height of my elation. From those glorious days when I was on top of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Pain of Child-Loss, &#8216;Surrender is Beneath Me&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am hastened into facing another day. Woken by the onslaught of my mourning. It is a struggle to keep the sorrow at bay, as it strikes me without warning. The terror impacts me the instant I wake. But I must keep fighting for sanity&#8217;s sake. Through the relentless oppression of laughter and song. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Spring Thaw, Bereaved Dad Feels the Cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wheel of time can spin sunshine into a frozen shroud, making the heart cold and weary and the eyes reluctant to look upon the day. As the spring begins to unfold, I can see how degraded the fabric of my life has become. It is unbelievably frayed; in fact, it is completely unraveled. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child-Loss: When the Heavens Go Dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out beyond the silence of eternal night, within the void of voiceless echoes, between the folds of dark and light. In somber streams of starlight. In the waves of ebb and flow. Heaven exceeds eternal planes. Though, it remains closer then we know. There was a time when the stars were a great source of inspiration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Rest on the Journey through Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John French</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grief is an incredibly difficult venture, a monumental climb from the pit of despair. It is an absolutely exhausting venture that drains you physically and weighs heavy on your mind. As I look back on the months following my son’s death, I’ve come to realize that I haven’t moved at all. Even though others may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing the Early Days of Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s overwhelming to face a tragedy that you never saw coming. Grief rises up suddenly from the meadows of life like an insurmountable peak. The base is vast and panoramic. You can see nothing beyond the moment and the ascent seems impossible. Even though we are stranded in a woeful valley, it’s apparent that nothing [...]]]></description>
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