<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245727097686574801.post2886339373917482215..comments</id><updated>2009-06-12T17:30:04.886-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on ClergySpirit: Thinking About Sabbaticals, 2</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.clergyspirit.org/feeds/2886339373917482215/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7245727097686574801/2886339373917482215/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.clergyspirit.org/2009/06/thinking-about-sabbaticals-2.html'/><author><name>Scott Endress</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05329824590752344862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245727097686574801.post-618823916148753316</id><published>2009-06-12T14:33:37.287-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T14:33:37.287-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There' a wonderful text found in a song by Twila P...</title><content type='html'>There&amp;#39; a wonderful text found in a song by Twila Paris that says:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;There is a holy kinship&lt;br /&gt;You tell me you have known&lt;br /&gt;But in the rush of serving&lt;br /&gt;You wonder where it&amp;#39;s gone&lt;br /&gt;I pray you will remember&lt;br /&gt;A younger heart&amp;#39;s desire&lt;br /&gt;I pray that He will breathe upon&lt;br /&gt;The embers of your fire&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think a sabbatical does exactly that, allows God to breathe upon the embers of your fire and rekindle the passion and purpose He&amp;#39;s placed in you.  Maybe we could learn something from the Catholic Church.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7245727097686574801/2886339373917482215/comments/default/618823916148753316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7245727097686574801/2886339373917482215/comments/default/618823916148753316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.clergyspirit.org/2009/06/thinking-about-sabbaticals-2.html?showComment=1244835217287#c618823916148753316' title=''/><author><name>Nancy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08434791638876540818</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.clergyspirit.org/2009/06/thinking-about-sabbaticals-2.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245727097686574801.post-2886339373917482215' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7245727097686574801/posts/default/2886339373917482215' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>