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		<title>The Celtic Hearth &#8211; epicenter of community and spirituality</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2011/06/29/the-celtic-hearth-epicenter-of-community-and-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, the hearth is a site where the Celtic family gathers for both physical nourishment (for cooking and eating) and for spiritual nourishment (in the form of story telling, spiritual teaching, prayer, and healing). It is widely understood in the Celtic world that the hearth is a sacred place. It is a practical, yet spiritual, epicenter of Celtic culture. What are your hearth experiences? <a href="http://natebettger.com/2011/06/29/the-celtic-hearth-epicenter-of-community-and-spirituality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1279&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality and mystery &#8211; J. Steven Harper</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2011/05/31/spirituality-and-mystery-j-steven-harper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 23:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western theology tends to minimize mystery and maximize analysis. If we are not careful, we lose the sense of the sacred which must always attend the theological task... We are dealing with a mystery too large for our minds or our pens. The preservation of a sense of holiness and reverence about all this is something we dare not lose. To do so would be to turn spirituality into something more akin to an element than an encounter. <a href="http://natebettger.com/2011/05/31/spirituality-and-mystery-j-steven-harper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1257&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering&#8230; when you are not in control and you know it!</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2011/04/13/suffering-when-you-are-not-in-control-and-you-know-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How difficult it is to be a man and know that I am not in control. I want to fix so badly. In these days when Kat and I are really trying to learn about self-care and staying healthy for the baby, and struggling in our attempts, this lesson of control is so real. It is such an effort for me to call on that place of love and acceptance, of calm, patience, and breath. Presence remains... personal, loving, healing. And my prayers go there, and go there, and go there, and go there. Breathe, breathe, breathe... remember. <a href="http://natebettger.com/2011/04/13/suffering-when-you-are-not-in-control-and-you-know-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1231&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Moore on books</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2011/01/06/thomas-moore-on-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I wish I had all the books I have ever owned, because I&#8217;m beginning to see that any book might offer just one thread in the tapestry of understanding, and that that one thought or image is worth the poundage &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2011/01/06/thomas-moore-on-books/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1155&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be a Friend of the Divine!</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2010/11/30/to-be-a-friend-of-the-dvine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such a beautiful story from Fr Anthony de Mello&#8230; Malik, son of Dinar, was upset about the profligate behavior of a youth who lived next door. For a long time he did nothing, hoping someone else would intervene. But when &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2010/11/30/to-be-a-friend-of-the-dvine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1127&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The marks of a progressing civilization</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2010/10/07/the-marks-of-a-progressing-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I desire the happiness in our children, and mark our progress as humanity by that, I am not referring to children as never crying. I am not ruling out other marks of a progressive society, but merely desiring a shift in priority. What does our society claim as proof of our progression? Happiness is something more than self-satisfied, self-interested, and self-serving. It something greater than an innocent or unaware naivety.  <a href="http://natebettger.com/2010/10/07/the-marks-of-a-progressing-civilization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Dad for the Doggy</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2010/10/03/being-dad-for-the-doggy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening, I came home looking forward to seeing my doggy and found four intestinal explosions (pick your end of choice) around the house. She is definitely sick. So we fed her and comforted her and later went to bed. I am beginning to see that spirituality starts with nature. There is no linear way to describe the difference between the flight pattern of a chickadee and a woodpecker. There is no scientific way that describes the emotion of a cat lounging in the sun. And there is no way but soulfully to describe the look on Coco's face when she is "happy" to see us or when she is sick. <a href="http://natebettger.com/2010/10/03/being-dad-for-the-doggy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the questions and living into the answers</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/06/23/protecting-the-questions-and-living-into-the-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/06/23/protecting-the-questions-and-living-into-the-answers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=737&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oppression is not gender-based or race-based…</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/06/04/oppression-is-not-gender-based-or-race-based%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, by Bill Plotkin. This very well could be a handbook for the future of community growth models and life stages of transformation… so appropriate &#8230; <a href="http://natebettger.com/2009/06/04/oppression-is-not-gender-based-or-race-based%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natebettger.com&amp;blog=1059991&amp;post=695&amp;subd=natebettger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal repercussions of temporary intentions</title>
		<link>http://natebettger.com/2009/05/04/eternal-repercussions-of-temporary-intentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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