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		<title>Modern-day Monasticism, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a 3-part article I wrote about the possibility of living life a little differently.  It was stimulated from a book that I read.  I would love to hear your thoughts (agreement, disagreement, problems with, insights, experiences, etc) regarding it, if you manage to read the whole thing!
Part I
When I first heard the phrase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/441</link>
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		<title>Modern-day Monasticism, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part II
Why simply wipe out modern-day monastic communities from possibility simply because our lifestyles potentially look very different today than they did a thousand years ago? I do not think that a monastic lifestyle was a normal expression of life to anyone until they joined one!  Perhaps there was more in the Celtic or Roman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/435</link>
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		<title>Modern-day Monasticism, Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part III
Having thought through how a modern-day monastic community might look, I am left with two questions: what would be the point of living life this way, and how would this type of community impact culturally expected aspects of life (work, finances, children, school, marriage, church, etc)?
Why would anyone want to live this way?  What’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/430</link>
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		<title>Endurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are my thoughts regarding endurance, mine in particular.  This is a portion of my lifejournal entry from 12/15/2009.  To see the entire thing, go to http://mcmahonlife.com/life-journal/december-life-journal/12-15-2009.



The Master of the Universe (a very Jewish way to describe God), has been showing me lately just how much I have to learn, how much I must learn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/395</link>
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		<title>Pursuit of Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is happiness a choice?  I&#8217;ve been confronted with this dilemma this morning in particular, but this week in general.  I don&#8217;t mean the  exertion of effort to put a smile on my face, but the happiness that causes a smile to be worn.  Is that latter happiness attainable by choice?  Can I look at my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/383</link>
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		<title>I think this counts as &#8220;pouring rain&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fall has officially arrived, announcing itself not only be incredible color but by torrents or rain that will last for a while before tapering off into standard Seattle winter drizzle.  Five months and counting.  That&#8217;s how long we&#8217;ve been at the Bluffs.  We moved in May 19th.  Crazy.  So much has happened that it could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/232</link>
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		<title>Entitlement (by Michelle)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think every generation deals with the same problems and issues. I mean, the generations that grew up during the depression and WWII deal with lack of emotional expression and are driven by working hard and making sure everything is taken care of. The next generations, who grew up during the 1960’s and 70’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/187</link>
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		<title>Insight from a Parent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are always incredibly appreciative of the thoughts and insights of others in our lives.  There are times we write about issues upon which we are far less than authorities (parenting, for example).  Sometimes we are blessed to receive thoughts and insights from those far more appropriately recognized as authorities on the subject.  We wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/151</link>
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		<title>Block Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the standard Wednesday night scene for us in Seattle: we were standing outside the chapel before youth group, hiding under the overhang watching the rain come down.  What occurred next was a moment that remains entrenched deep within me.  Not deep in the way that it’s so far back I’ll never be able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/148</link>
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		<title>Building Community: Casual Encounters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hey Brian?”
“Yes, Cassandra?”
“Last year Kevin hit me.”
“Did it happen today?”
“No.”
“Then Cassandra, if it didn’t happen just now you don’t need to tell me about it!”
That’s a pretty standard conversation with Cassandra, a self-proclaimed “little girl” (usually to the end that she solicits my help building LEGO structures that she could very readily make herself), and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcmahonlife.com/archives/140</link>
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