﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"><channel rdf:about="/comments/rss.aspx"><title>Welcome To Looking For The Long Ride: Recent Comments</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com</link><description /><dc:publisher>Quick Blog</dc:publisher><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://app.onlinequickblog.com/" /><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175801" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175614" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174566" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174271" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172598" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172480" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1137024" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132345" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132215" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/04/john-piper-and-beyond.aspx#comment-1109280" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175801"><title>Comment on Life's Little Poetic Moments</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175801</link><description><![CDATA[I think of the song that we used to sing, "Give thanks with a grateful heart" and wonder if this is not what the author meant. The moments we spend around a dining room table in conversation and the encouragement we feel upon leaving—which in and of itself brings to mind another sermon I once heard about putting courage into one another.<br><br>Many of our poems are written on our hearts and whether we are aware of them or not they help smooth some of the rough spots we sometimes find ourselves in.<br>]]></description><dc:creator>Terry Henry</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-07T10:09:38Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175614"><title>Comment on Life's Little Poetic Moments</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1175614</link><description><![CDATA[Thanks Terry and Carey for gentle poetry to wash these tired eyes.<br> <br>And the encouragement to recognize the moment for what is, rich and full...there is a holiness there from God which brings reverence welling up within.]]></description><dc:creator>ded</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-07T10:03:53Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174566"><title>Comment on Life's Little Poetic Moments</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174566</link><description><![CDATA[My point exactly..bravo.<br>]]></description><dc:creator>Terry Henry</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-06T20:58:19Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174271"><title>Comment on Life's Little Poetic Moments</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/06/lifes-little-poetic-moments.aspx#comment-1174271</link><description><![CDATA[All our life,<br> we slept beneath a patchwork quilt<br> upon the cozy life we’d built.<br>Three children<br> made our patchwork warm,<br> but also frayed, sometimes torn.<br>Later on,when<br> they had moved across the mountains’          rolling green,<br> beyond the blue sky and the dream,<br> we washed the old quilt, made it clean.<br>We threw<br>  it o’er the line to dry;<br>  It flapped and snapped a sad goodbye.<br>Then we laid it on the bed again, <br>  where we dream about them now and then.<br>C]]></description><dc:creator>Carey</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-06T20:57:40Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172598"><title>Comment on Four Dollar Gas Is Only The Tip Of The Iceburg?</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172598</link><description><![CDATA[Thanks. I don't think I did the subject much justice however. My frustration lays in the fact that people seem to believe that we are making headway by having a women or an African American participate in a presidential primary process. I think that is great but the point still remains that that, in and of itself, is not going to fix anything. <br><br>What we need is a radical shift in thinking. We need national goals and MO's that we can all get behind. And this is making the assumption that our world is not going to overheat in the near future and burn us all up. <br><br>It is the balance of power between free will and puppets on a string—we need to live our lives as if what we do on an individual basis makes a difference. If one or two companies control our corn and the rest of what we eat and centralized farming, etc. continues, then any natural disaster is going to throw the rest of the equation out of kilter.<br><br>Dylan also said in the late 60's: You have thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled, the fear to bring children into this world.<br><br>In these uncertain times, we need to have our focus on spiritual things, not things on earth. And that is certainly a challenge for me but one that I know I need to take.<br>]]></description><dc:creator>Terry Henry</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-05T20:00:35Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172480"><title>Comment on Four Dollar Gas Is Only The Tip Of The Iceburg?</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/07/02/is-someone-lying-to-us.aspx#comment-1172480</link><description><![CDATA[This observation that you wrote is the crux of the matter: "... we have become used to having most anything that we have desired and this has brought us to a time in history where our options are about to be defined for us rather than us setting our own course."<br>This condition is what our parent's generation called "spoiled." <br> <i> It's a hard, hard, hard rain's a gonna fall.</i>]]></description><dc:creator>Carey</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-05T19:38:53Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1137024"><title>Comment on Who's In Charge?</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1137024</link><description><![CDATA[this line pretty much says it all, this is where true unity will come...my prayer for the universal church is just that...transparency...we can talk it, but more is required than that..we must 'do'it...good stuff..."When a group of people trust God and one another enough to be transparent and real, healing will take place, love will happen and change will not be something we avoid but rather embrace."<br />melody]]></description><dc:creator>melody</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-21T08:27:06Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132345"><title>Comment on Who's In Charge?</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132345</link><description><![CDATA[I see the essence of what we have sought all these years in this sentence which you have written: "When a group of people trust God and one another enough to be transparent and real, healing will take place, love will happen and change will not be something we avoid but rather embrace."<br />     Yes, we have sought that. In some ways, we approach its fulfillment. In other ways, we have fallen short.  But I can tell you this:  the Kingdom that Christ hath founded is much greater than that. You and I could go today to Tanzania, or China, or Ecuador, or Romania, or Myrtle Beach, or most any place on earth, and we would find  there believers in the Lord Jesus whose faith originated with those first seeds sown by  Peter, Paul, etc.  This thing is far, far bigger than what happens between "two or more of you."  He also manifests wherever "two or more (hundreds, thousands, millions)agree. The Kingdom of God is destined to occupy all the earth. <br />    What you have observed about the cell(group) is also true of the entire organism (Body of Christ) and is much more awesome that we can comprehend.<br />C]]></description><dc:creator>Carey</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-19T15:06:50Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132215"><title>Comment on Who's In Charge?</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/19/whos-in-charge.aspx#comment-1132215</link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad we're on the ride together!]]></description><dc:creator>ded</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-19T14:11:49Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/04/john-piper-and-beyond.aspx#comment-1109280"><title>Comment on John Piper and Beyond</title><link>http://blog.lookingforthelongride.com/2008/06/04/john-piper-and-beyond.aspx#comment-1109280</link><description><![CDATA[I'm way late to this post, having been out of town for vacation, but wanted to also give my two thumbs up to this post.<br> <br>Great stuff!  Go ahead and soar!]]></description><dc:creator>Steve Sensenig</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-10T13:02:09Z</dc:date></item></rdf:RDF>