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		<title>introducing our newest team member: zoey</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2012/01/04/introducing-our-newest-team-member-zoey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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By RTF Editor Bekah Hamrick Martin
Some of you know my story.
Shame.
Loss.
Depression.
Worthlessness.

These are some of the words that haunted me on the darkest nights.
I heard the lie over and over again as a teen that life wasn’t worth living. That things would never be different. That nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Would. Ever. Get. Better.
I don’t know where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real story: i was stunned.</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/17/real-story-u-turns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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By Guest Writer Sarah G.
“Mom, I don’t feel good. I’m going to bed. Wake me up for dinner, please.”
That statement, I don’t feel good, was being said way too often in my house – every day after school.
When I went to sleep it was three in the afternoon, on Friday March 4, 2011. My mom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real song: beautiful letdown</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/10/real-song-beautiful-letdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When change is all around us, we can be assured that even change is a beautiful letdown.
Let this song by Switchfoot encourage you today.

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		<title>real devo: good out of bad?</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/09/real-devo-good-out-of-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/09/real-devo-good-out-of-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shannon Meiers]]></category>
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By RTF Staff Writer Shannon Meiers
I’ve never been a huge fan of change.
Maybe because when I was little, it seemed that change only brought bad things. Change brought stressful jobs to my dad. Change moved me away from my best friends. Change was a little bit scary. And change hurt.
Then I grew up (not necessarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>real story: out with the old</title>
		<link>http://realteenfaith.com/2011/08/03/real-story-out-with-the-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derek Hanisch]]></category>
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By RTF Contributor Derek Hanisch
I looked in the mirror and smiled.  With a little imagination I looked as if I belonged at Hogwarts.
I must say, wearing my black graduation gown certainly was a fantasy come true.  After many, many long hours of work my college career was coming to an end.
With graduation my [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>bjhamrick</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Hamrick]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2009/02/17/real-poem-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Hamrick]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/11/18/real-story-its-cancer-d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derek Hanisch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[


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>
		<comments>http://realteenfaith.com/2008/11/04/real-devo-the-invitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bekah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debra Weiss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[is God real?]]></category>
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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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