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	<title>263: Thinking of My Child with Joy</title>
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	<title>69: Our Children are Our Life</title>
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	<title>68: Joy is Part of God&#8217;s Kingdom</title>
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	<title>67: Getting out of &#8220;Whyville&#8221; (With Joe and Shaunda Knight)</title>
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	<title>66: Choosing to Find Joy Again (with Joe and Shaunda Knight)</title>
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	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Last week I started talking about scriptures that can be difficult to understand like having joy in trials or rejoicing always in the Lord. This episode was going to be part 2 of that discussion. Due to “the computer eating my homework”, I lost my notes ]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>65: Untangling Tough Scriptures About Joy</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[This series of Finding Joy Again wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t also talk about some verses in the Bible that tell us to have joy in our trials, which can almost be like stumbling blocks that get in the way – things we can trip over. As I started recording, I realized I had [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This series of Finding Joy Again wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t also talk about some verses in the Bible that tell us to have joy in our trials, which can almost be like stumbling blocks that get in the way – things we can trip over. As I started reco]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>64: Six Stepping Stones to Finding Joy Again</title>
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