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		<title>Something Beautiful</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">It seems like everywhere we turn there’s someone trying to sell salvation: </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">a talk show host who wants to change who we are in an instant, creams, drinks, shampoos and clothes that promise miracles, a <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/guru" title="click here for meaning"><span style="color:blue;">guru</span></a> with a way to banish all our troubles</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">.  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Britannic Bold','sans-serif';">Some of them can’t imagine what it’s like to be you.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Brando;">Many of them try to exorcise their own demons by trying to cast out yours</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Teletype;">A few are really trying to do their “civic” duty by you</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">.  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Librarian;">Most offer short term band-aids over a wound they can’t possible hope to understand.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed','sans-serif';">Others are trying to sell you something they couldn’t stand to embody themselves.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Carlisle;">The worst ones just want to take advantage of your personal <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/strife" title="click here for meaning"><span style="color:blue;">strife</span></a> for their own gain. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">Unfortunately, the real question isn’t: </span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calli 109';">“Which one will work for you?”</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">or even: </span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calli 109';">“Who has the best intentions?”</span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">It’s a property rights issue: </span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calli 109';">“Is salvation really theirs to give?”</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Harrington;">  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">Everyone was created for <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/Natalie-Grant/Something-Beautiful/lyrics/17881798#lyricstop"><span style="color:blue;">something</span></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYPxM7bo6g"><span style="color:blue;"> beautiful</span></a> .  No matter where you were born or to whom, your life is heading somewhere, regardless of what happens on the way you can do something incredible with the journey.  We are each <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139:13-14%20;&amp;version=46"><span style="color:blue;">made</span></a>  and empowered with the free will to decide what footprints we leave behind.  Each person contributes to society as a whole and, as our society becomes increasingly <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3995" title="Read about GLOBALIZATION on Foreign Policy's website"><span style="color:blue;">global</span></a>, our choices are growing to have a wider, broader impact. With radio, television, satellites and the internet connecting people hundreds of thousands of miles apart one person can change the world by his or her actions or inaction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;"></span><b><i><span style="font-size:22pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calli 109';">Is</span></i></b><span style="font-size:22pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Calli 109';"> salvation theirs to give?</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">In a world where little else is certain, the one thing we can each be positive about is that salvation is ours to create, and inasmuch, ours to accept.  It can’t be force fed to us through commercial endeavors, empty political promises, school books or even divinely inspired text.  It’s something we embody when we choose to live our lives to the fullest.  It’s something we personify when, instead of taking what we’re given, like</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> <a href="http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/19/46/frameset.html" title="Read the original story by Charles Dickens"><span style="color:blue;">Oliver</span></a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380599/"><span style="color:blue;">Twist</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">we get up and ask for </span><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">‘…s’more’</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">It’s symbolized not by pretty words, but by choosing in the here and now to do</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/Natalie-Grant/Something-Beautiful/lyrics/17881798#lyricstop"><span style="color:blue;">something</span></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYPxM7bo6g"><span style="color:blue;"> beautiful</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Alor;">with the life you’ve been given</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;">.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Cornerstone;"> </span></p>
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		<title>Fallen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a murky world full of sinister darkness and fallen angels, we rose above the shadowy clouds and our wings found light.  Now many would think to run towards it, bathing in the radiant illumination of souls redeemed, but not we three, anymore than all the others who had risen before only to fail to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hauntedangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2300836&amp;post=1&amp;subd=hauntedangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">In a murky world full of sinister darkness and fallen angels, we rose above the shadowy clouds and our wings found light. <span> </span>Now many would think to run towards it, bathing in the radiant illumination of souls redeemed, but not we three, anymore than all the others who had risen before only to fail to understand the beauty of joy so destroyed were their souls by abuse.<span>  </span>Buoyant with the knowledge that there was a path not taken but open to all, we returned to the treachery of our sinister pasts over and over again in our minds. </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">Into our murky actions and sordid lives we sank, re-immersing ourselves in misery so thick that we thought we might drown, b</font></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">ut all was not lost. </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">In times that were often bleak for those struggling to find out who they were and etch a place in this world, we’d found friendship.<span>   </span>Amongst the ashes of our lives, we’d found hope.<span>  </span>Engulfed by fear, we faced overwhelming odds and beat the table.<span> </span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3"><span> </span></font></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">                      </font></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">We were not crushed.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">                                           </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">We were not overcome.</span></b><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">We did not capitulate to what the world had destined for us.<span>  </span>We rose above and took our lives back. Now we want to shine a beacon for those who came before but were left behind, those who will inevitably come after.</font></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">Now, maybe you’re visiting this page because you recognize yourself in our story.<span>  </span>Maybe you heard of it by word of mouth, and were curious to see what we’re about.<span>  </span>Maybe you’re looking for help and didn’t know where else to turn. <span> </span>Maybe you’re looking for answers that you feel you just may find here. No matter, you’ve come to the right place.</font></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">                       This is where uncertainty meets destiny…<span>     </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">            This is where every action you take counts…</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">It&#8217;s the crossroads where you decide what to make of your life.<span>  </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">We know.<span>  </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">We’ve been there and survived.</span></b><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">Now it’s your turn, but what happens next?<span>  </span>Where does ambiguity turned into confidence in the future lead, when the only thing you’ve ever been able to trust in is doubt?<span>  </span></font></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"></span><span style="font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';"><font size="3">Find out:</font></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Algerian;">           </span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Baskerville Old Face','serif';">Survival is just the beginning</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Algerian;">!</span></p>
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