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		<description><![CDATA[Many companies and organizations have policies and procedures for dealing with the hazards of the job. If a firefighter is injured in the line of duty, and is unable to work, the agency will usually find a place for that employee to serve. Sometimes the tasks can be clerical or administrative, but the &#8220;light-duty&#8221; assignment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oxidation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5200959&amp;post=191&amp;subd=oxidation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before I was terminated, we were in a regional staff meeting and were told that the denomination was bleeding $200k a month.  This would mean there would most likely need to be 10-12 FTEs cut from the budget.  A couple months later, my politically-motivated termination occurred.  One of my friends, who is skilled in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oxidation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5200959&amp;post=188&amp;subd=oxidation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many thoughts flood my fragile soul.  Just when I think I have what it takes to step forward and conquer the challenges that lie before us, a light breeze blows across the landscape and smacks me to the ground.  Like a grocery bag in the wind, it doesn&#8217;t take much to toss me about.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oxidation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5200959&amp;post=182&amp;subd=oxidation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how much of our lives revolve around food.  We meet people for lunch, have church potlucks, and rarely have guests in our home without feeding them.  Given this centrality of food, it shouldn&#8217;t be any surprise that many of the stories involving Jesus, also involve food.  It started at His first miracle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oxidation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5200959&amp;post=180&amp;subd=oxidation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was called to lead.  Every cell of my being has been honed from the same DNA.  The experiences of my past have taught me to ignore the bastards, damn the torpedoes, and to charge forward with fresh memories of the Nazis bombing Pearl Harbor!  It&#8217;s what I I&#8217;ve been called to do. In the past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oxidation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5200959&amp;post=178&amp;subd=oxidation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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