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	<itunes:summary>Elmer Laydon&#039;s The Whisper of God is an exploration of how keeping God in our lives can make our lives more fulfilling.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Seeing God With Your Own Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to think that I have an open mind.&#160; I try not to have preconceived notions about things before I experience them for myself.
For example, I will try new foods to see how they taste before I decide if I like them or not.&#160; I don&#8217;t make decisions based on their name or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Laboring With God</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/12/co-laboring-with-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you but I have found that there seems to be a certain time of the day that God works on me.&#160; For me, this is generally about three in the morning.
As grateful as I am that God spends time with me or working on me, I find that His intervention at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Flying</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/11/fear-of-flying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this I am on a plane flying home from being out of town.
While sitting here looking out the window, I started to remember how I used to be such a white-knuckled flier. Any change in a noise, little bump, turn, or anything else unexpected used to make my heart jump into my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Thank You</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/11/a-special-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that you will allow me to take some of your time to say a special thank you to you – my readers.&#160; And to tell you a little story about how almost anything that we want to accomplish in our lives is possible.&#160; All we need to do is have a dream, put [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Raising a Story</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/11/raising-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, as a writer, I get stuck.&#160; And right now I think I’m stuck…
I get ideas, I work on them, come up with a story, and then I read it and don’t feel like it’s ready to let go.&#160; So I put the story on a shelf hoping that some day I will come back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Go with the Flow</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/10/learning-to-go-with-the-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, in our lives, God takes us down paths we would least likely expect. 
If someone had told me as little as two years ago that I would be developing a website called The Whisper of God and writing inspirational and spiritual messages, I might have thought they were crazy.&#160; But that is exactly what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Doubt is the Enemy of Success</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/09/self-doubt-is-the-enemy-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure we have all been in a position where we have been working hard to accomplish something; you invest hours and hours into reaching a goal, finishing a project, studying for an exam… only to find that as you are nearing the finish line you start to question yourself.
You start to wonder: am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Over the Fear of &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/08/getting-over-the-fear-of-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in my professional life I had a fear of rejection.&#160; 
I think it might have had to do with how I was trained at a large accounting firm that I previously worked for.&#160; At that firm, we were required to report every week how many new people we met, where we met them, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/08/turning-obstacles-into-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger, I never really understood what it meant to be a “glass is half-empty” versus a “glass is half-full” type of person.&#160; Was one better than the other?&#160; Which one were we supposed to be?&#160; Through my life, things have happened that have helped me learn the difference between the two.
In February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moth</title>
		<link>http://www.thewhisperofgod.com/2009/07/the-moth-and-the-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was standing at my front door this morning looking outside I spotted a little moth flying around.&#160; The sun was hitting its wings at just the right angle to light it up and made it look like it was iridescent.&#160; I don&#8217;t know why this caught my attention but I watched the moth [...]]]></description>
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