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	<title>Craig's Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My Birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Craig's Life Stories</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where better to start stories about my life than with my birth? Let me start though in putting my birth in a little context.
After my older brother was born, my mother had given birth to twins, Peter and Paul, who unfortunately had died at birth. The hospital where she had given birth had treated her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three years to the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I lay on the bed next to Maria, my wife, holding her hand, as she slipped away from mortality. The intervening three years have been difficult and turbulent years for me as I have grappled with deal with life without her.
The first year actually passed very quickly and with little difficulty. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Firsts at Church</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=9</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Alexandra, my six year old daughter, gave her first talk at church. The topic was faith. We had had no time to practice it and I had basically hurriedly typed up the talk for her a few mintues before leaving for church. She did a great job and looked like a pro up there. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord&#8217;s Wind</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=8</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I to hear Elder John Groberg of the First Quorum of Seventy speak. He related a story from his mission in Tonga. One day traveling to a distant island to meet with a family eager to hear his gospel message their boat was becalmed. For a long time they sat waiting for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way forward is opened</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=7</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I felt frustrated with the obstacles in the way of graduating in April. Being so close and yet so far was maddening. It was also a great worry as to what would happen if I didn&#8217;t graduate in April. The chances are I would end up back in the UK, jobless, penniless and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our lives are directed from above</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=6</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a young mother in my congregation passed away with cancer leaving behind her a husband and three young children ages 5, 3 and 9 months. It is a death very poignant to me given that it is nearly 3 years since my own wife passed away in similar circumstances. My own children at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All for the sake of half an hour</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=4</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last semester was a nightmare. Through various reasons I missed a lot of the first month or two of classes and struggled to catch up. I ended finals weeks thinking there was no way to graduate in April. If I didn&#8217;t graduate in April, I had no funding to carry on, without being enrolled full-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another year down</title>
		<link>http://www.pickupfamily.org/blog/?p=3</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One aspect of been born on New Year&#8217;s day is that as each calendar year rolls by so does another year of my life. It is almost like the whole world is counting down my years not just me. And it adds to that feeling that life is slipping by.
Well with so much of my [...]]]></description>
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