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		<title>real issues: invisible chains</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/10/02/real-issues-invisible-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Try to imagine this: your family is utterly destitute and can barely provide for one meal a day. Because you have to help your parents provide food and clothing for all your siblings, it is impossible for you to go to school.
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A friend of your family—or even a relative—comes to your father, and offers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Issue: Self Respect</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/02/27/real-issue-self-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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by BJ Hamrick, RTF Staff Writer

To be honest, I’m probably the last person who should write an article about self-respect. After all, I’m the girl who permed her hair, dyed her skin, and over-waxed her eyebrows… all in hopes she’d like herself when she was done. (Unfortunately, it’s hard to like yourself when your skin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real poem: Wings</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/02/17/real-poem-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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by BJ Hamrick, RTF Staff Writer
Crumpled and lost
In a new world
The wind blows hard
I&#8217;m tossed and hurled
Wasn&#8217;t it best
How I used to be
With legs to crawl
And eyes to see?
What are these frail
And aching things?
I call them pain
You call them wings
I wrote this in an e-mail to a friend one late night. I was struggling because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Story: It&#8217;s cancer, D.</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/11/18/real-story-its-cancer-d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Derek and team in 2005


I groggily looked up at the nurse. &#8220;Do you know the results?&#8221; I asked.
It was a struggle to form the words, my brain was still muddled from the anesthesia. She told me that she didn&#8217;t know. I was wheeled into a recovery room, where they let me have a sip of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Devo: The Invitation</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/11/04/real-devo-the-invitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Invitation
By: Debra Weiss, RTF Staff Writer
I feel like God isn&#8217;t listening to my prayers.
I don&#8217;t think God really answers prayer these days&#8230;
I&#8217;ve given up praying; God isn&#8217;t interested in my problems.
I&#8217;ve talked to the teens that have uttered these statements. Once optimistic, they&#8217;ve been beaten down by life. A parentsʼ divorce, chronic illness, surgery, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Devo: Take it all</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/10/23/real-devo-take-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Take it all
For Mr. Tracy, by Judi Weiss, RTF Staff Writer
Trust in the Lord. It sounds easy enough. Especially when everything is going good. The road is even. But what about when a crisis comes your way?
My youth minister, Mr. Tracy, was diagnosed with Hodgkinʼs Lymphoma, known as Hodgkinʼs Disease, in June of 2007. Hodgkinʼs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Devo: Worth It</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/10/17/real-devo-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Worth It
by B.J. Hamrick, RTF Staff Writer
I&#8217;m not the type of girl who likes to be put in a box. But on a warm fall day in the mountains of North Carolina, my friend Laura talked me into it.
Literally.
&#8220;It&#8217;ll be fun,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Just crawl in.&#8221;
I questioned my sanity immediately. I questioned it as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My friend, Sarah</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/09/24/my-friend-sarah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BJHamrick</dc:creator>
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My Friend, Sarah
by B. J. Hamrick, RTF Staff Writer
When I think of the word bold, I think of Sarah&#8217;s red, flaming hair. But beneath her red, flaming hair was a person – someone just like you and me – someone who struggled to be bold in other ways.
&#8220;I want to stand up for Jesus at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Advice: He said he liked me</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/09/15/real-advice-he-said-he-liked-me/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/09/15/real-advice-he-said-he-liked-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BJHamrick</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been praying about this alot, and I haven&#8217;t found any help on it&#8230;There is the guy who is in my grade (I&#8217;m in high school as a junior) and a couple weeks before school started, he sent me a text message saying he likes me, after the couple weeks we have talked to eachother, and now school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Quote: When things are hard</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/07/29/real-quote-when-things-are-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something. ~ Oswald Chambers

I read this quote this morning and it stopped me. .
What does this mean? When things are tough, like when I had cancer or when my [...]]]></description>
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