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		<title>A Christmas to Remember</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First published in The Carillon, Thursday, December 22 It was Christmas Eve.  Snow was blowing outside but, inside, Christmas carols played and a fire burned cheerily in the hearth.  Lydia and Jon, the mother and father of the family, were together in the kitchen.  Lydia took the last batch of Christmas goodies out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/a-christmas-to-remember</link>
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		<title>Romans 9 &amp; 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” – Romans 9:11&#38;12 The Bible as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/romans-9</link>
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		<title>Stop Copyright Infringement and Internet Slander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you or your business ever been the victim of copyright infringement or slander though the Internet? Hundreds of thousands of people have been slandered or had their photos/content/songs/programs distributed online without their consent.  Many webmasters are completely unethical and will use any means at their disposal to drive traffic to their sites, including stealing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/entrepreneur/stop-copyright-infringement-and-internet-slander</link>
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		<title>Author Reading in Steinbach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Two of a Kind Author Reading with Celesta Thiessen Poster pdf &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/author-reading-two-of-a-kind</link>
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		<title>Flying Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jordan Powel flew through the air in the cafeteria directly into a large metal pot, sending macaroni everywhere as the pot reverberated with a gong.  The 13-year-old boy rubbed his head fiercely, stood up and then quickly gathered the lunch fare onto a tray: macaroni, chocolate milk and banana pudding for desert. “I think the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/flying-right</link>
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		<title>How To Motivate Yourself to Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an aspiring writer, it is likely that you have struggled with having the motivation or the drive to carry a story through to completion.  Oh, sure, starting is often easy; an unusual dream or fanciful idea sparks our imagination and, in a flurry of inspiration, we scrawl or tap out a story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/how-to-motivate-yourself-to-write</link>
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		<title>The Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not difficult to understand why there have been so many movies, in recent years, about the end of the world.  The end will come.  And the end of all things is closer now than ever before. In the Bible, regarding the end times, Jesus admonishes the people, “Watch”.  We must be ready for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/the-apocalypse</link>
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		<title>Rich Young Ruler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us consider the story of a rich young man. Matthew 19:16-22 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/rich-young-ruler</link>
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		<title>Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need hope. I have money.  Money can&#8217;t be a friend to me.  Money can&#8217;t talk with me when I&#8217;m sad.  Money can&#8217;t warm my soul. I have a nice house.  My house can&#8217;t speak words of encouragement to my heart.  My house can&#8217;t show me the right way to go. I have a cute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/i-need-hope</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Too Late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; No matter how far you&#8217;ve gone in the wrong direction, it&#8217;s never too late to turn around. It&#8217;s not too late to believe in God. It&#8217;s not too late to say you&#8217;re sorry. Rescue and hope forever more are much closer than you know&#8230;only a prayer away.]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/its-not-too-late</link>
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		<title>Research Project &#8211; Mira Kadia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyra scanned through the documents on the archaic Library computer.  It was too bad history had become unimportant to her culture.  Records were scattered.  Information was hard to find.  Her school project was to research a historical figure of about the same age and write a report about that person&#8217;s life.  Tyra, being 17, had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/mira-kadia</link>
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		<title>The Sneaky Sin &#8211; Self-Pity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many sins are totally obvious to the sinner and to those around them.  Self-pity, though, is a sneaky one.  It quietly enters through the backdoor and begins to occupy one’s life!  Self-pity can be an addictive and destructive behavior.  Often, self-pity goes hand-in-hand with procrastination.  The self-pity/procrastination combination certainly makes life feel very, very difficult. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/the-sneaky-sin-self-pity</link>
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		<title>Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything for you Jesus! You are my heart’s desire! I’d give it all away! I need your holy fire! Mercy flowing over me, You guide me down your path. You’ve saved me through your blood. For me there is no wrath. Perfect peace and perfect hope, Alight within my core. I receive your Spirit, And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/everything</link>
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		<title>Make the Most of Every Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost all of us have things in our lives that we want to or need to do&#8230;things we need to make right.  Relationships that need mending and people we know who need to hear about Jesus. These things are on our mental &#8216;to-do&#8217; lists. The Bible says in Ephesians 5:15-16: Be very careful, then, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/make-the-most-of-every-opportunity</link>
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		<title>Self-Publishing an EBook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people dream of becoming a published author one day.  In today’s publication racket, it is very difficult.  Most publishers only want to work with writers they already know.  Finding a publisher who will read what you’ve written or even finding an agent to promote your work is a discouraging, and for me, an impossible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/entrepreneur/self-publishing-an-ebook</link>
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		<title>What is Grace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace isn’t a popular or a well-understood concept in society today.  To most people, the word ‘grace’ means a woman’s name or the prayer is said before a meal.  But to me, grace is everything!  Grace is possible because of what Jesus did for us.  The son of God died for our sin and rose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/grace</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, isn’t that just like Him!  First, He makes me write about forgiveness and post it on my blog.  Then, that same day, He brings up something very painful from my past, from over ten years ago, that I had buried but never actually forgave.  When I remembered this incidence, sadness, laced with bitterness, welled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/forgiveness-part-2</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bitterness Is the Problem Bitterness arises from anger left to rot.  Even a small amount of this vile brew will cloud the waters of life.  Many people suffer, their minds and hearts darkened by the poison of bitterness.  I used to be one of these people but now I walk in freedom! What Is Forgiveness, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/forgiveness</link>
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		<title>He Loves Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see his love in all he has done for me.  I read love in the words he has written to me. I feel his love in the quiet time we spend together.  His love drives the darkness from my heart. He’s never too tired to listen to all my problems and concerns.  He is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/he-loves-me</link>
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		<title>That Nose!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I looked into the mirror again.  Straight brown hair.  Brown eyes.  And that nose&#8230; so big&#8230;so ugly. My phone buzzed in my pocket.  It was the alarm clock app.  I pulled it out and tapped it, resetting the timer, then shoved my phone back into my pocket.  Time for my next dose of spinach. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/that-nose</link>
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		<title>Finding Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is so easy to feel lost, even bewildered when trying to figure out what to do in life…at least it certainly feels that way to me.  I have been struggling lately, especially in the areas of work/vocation and ministry.  But I know that God wants us to turn to Him for guidance and direction.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/finding-destiny</link>
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		<title>You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Otherworldy, full of fire, All that is reflects you. May I want what you desire, Keep me always true! Gentle, humble, ever kind, I want to know the way. May your thoughts be on my mind, Teach me every day! Holding all things in your hands, The outcome you foreknew. May your Truth reach all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/you</link>
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		<title>The Quest For Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m on a bit of a quest to understand love better.  Especially the love that demands nothing for itself.  The giving sort of love.  Love that is born out of abundance, rather than out of need.  So I listened to The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.  It’s a recording of C.S. Lewis himself.  The audio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/quest-for-love</link>
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		<title>The Find</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As she waited in the almost total darkness, she wondered again why she had agreed to this.  They said the house was haunted.  Janine knew it wasn’t.  Why did she have to prove it?  Yes, the house belonged to her family and yes, someone had been murdered in it, but why on earth did she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/the-find</link>
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		<title>Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. -1 Peter 4:7&#38;8]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/love</link>
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		<title>The Rose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long ago there was a great king named Kel who had power not of this world. He was good and kind. Great love burned in his heart. Kel lived in a barren place. There were no trees, no grass.. no water. He was all alone. He wanted to take care of something and to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/rose</link>
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		<title>Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half-laughing, half crying, she held her chocolated new-born.. Cocoa and water soaked into her flower print dress. &#8220;Horace, you grabbed the wrong tin from the pantry shelf. That wasn&#8217;t mustard powder.&#8221; The only known cure for seizures in Manitou, in 1915:  dip the baby in tepid water, with a sprinkle of mustard powder. This &#8216;cure&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/water</link>
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		<title>Communicate Your Way To A Happy Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication is vital in romantic relationships.  Problems arise in the areas of, addressing differences of opinion, helping the other person feel loved and in feeling loved/communicating needs.  It is so sad and feels so empty to be in a relationship where all you do is fight and you don’t feel loved.  But even in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/marriage/communicatefor-marriage</link>
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		<title>Call of The Dragon Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sun was low in the sky.  Panic closed her throat as she stood, shivering on the dry, cracked mud.  Terellis knew she had to be inside before dark.  Every child knew. Don’t be out in the high country after dark.  Beware the call of the dragon fire. The Dragon people.  Eyes of burning yellow.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/stories/the-call</link>
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		<title>First there’s love, then there’s marriage, then there’s work, work, work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Romantic love declares “My love for you will forever be true.  I’ll love you forever!”  Then over time those feeling fade and sometimes disappear completely.  The married partners look at each other bewildered and accusing.  Where did the love go? When a relationship is new the glow of romance makes everything easier.  All the striving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/marriage/first-comes-love</link>
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		<title>So You Want Happily Ever After?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people want romance, marriage and happily ever after.  Few get there.  The biggest reasons why romances and marriages fail are because of false expectations and miscommunications.  Love is not really like it is portrayed in the movies. A common wrong belief held by many is that, “all you need is love”.  Romantic love is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/marriage/so-you-want-happily-ever-after</link>
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		<title>I Love You, My Sweet Valentine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I gaze into your eyes, I swim the deep, chocolate ocean of your soul. When I hear your strong voice, I am Cupid&#8217;s arrow shot into the sky.  Zing! When I hold your hand in mine, I am a rose, blooming in the warmth of your love. When I hold you in my arms, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/blog/i-love-you</link>
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		<title>What To Do With Digital Photos?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Photography has become so popular that those who still use film cameras are few and far between. Almost everyone, from the professional photographer to the average mom taking candid shots of her kids to the child first learning to use a camera, has entered the digital world. People everywhere have hundreds and even thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/photographs/digital-photographs-what-to-do-with-them</link>
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		<title>Your Own Business:  Getting Organized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people feel that the first step to any successful business is to get organized.  While it may not always be the first step, organization is definitely essential for the continuing success of any business.  Customers will not be happy if things are forgotten.  Money will be mismanaged if it is not monitored carefully.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/entrepreneur/your-own-business-getting-organized</link>
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		<title>5HTP for Depression and Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depression is a condition related to inadequate amounts of Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, in a person’s brain.  Depression can be caused by tragic circumstances in life or it may be simply due to a biological imbalance.  In the latter case, heredity is often involved.  Depression, being a chemical problem, requires a chemical cure.  Just like positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/health-articles/5htp-for-depression-and-anxiety</link>
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		<title>How to Make a Marriage Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a life-long union, a source of encouragement and support.   Unfortunately, in today’s society, that seems rarely ever to be the case.  There is nagging, disloyalty, harsh words, bitterness, yelling, and divorce.  Whatever happened to love? Problems that Plague Marriages Lack of time together damages marriages. Work, children, hobbies, and social obligations can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/marriage/how-to-make-a-marriage-work</link>
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		<title>Insomnia from Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have experienced the horrible feeling of not being able to fall asleep.  For some people, insomnia is more than an occasional problem.  Approximately 3.3 million Canadians have sleep issues.  A lack of sleep caused by insomnia contributes to feelings of depression, and a lack of sleep increases reaction time which can lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/health-articles/insomnia-from-anxiety</link>
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		<title>Iron Rich Foods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Consume Iron Rich Foods? It is important to eat iron rich foods to maintain a healthy body.  Iron, in the form of iron rich foods, is needed by the body to create and maintain red blood cells.  Red blood cells carry oxygen in your body.  If you do not eat enough iron rich foods, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/science-articles/iron-rich-foods</link>
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		<title>Ethanol:  The Gasoline of the Future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The price of gasoline continues to rise as political unrest and natural disasters affect the extraction, refinement, and transportation of crude oil.  Scientists tell us the world’s supply of fossil fuels may be burned up in a matter of forty years.  So the question becomes, “What else can we use?” One contender is the alcohol, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/science-articles/ethanol-the-gasoline-of-the-future</link>
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		<title>Mini Kitties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of having mini kitties has been steadily gaining popularity over the last few years.  Mini kitties are very small cats that could be carried in a purse.  There has been some argument over the existence and definition of mini kitties. Do Mini Kitties Exist? The normal weight range for an adult cat is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://celestathiessen.com/animal-articles/mini-kitties</link>
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