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		<title>working at midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scrubbing toilets and mopping hallways, cleaning kitchens and vacuuming carpets while everyone, well most everyone, sleeps soundly has taken me a little bit to get used to, but I&#8217;ve come to enjoy it.  I find myself free during the day when everyone else is doing their work and free during the night in the stillness and the quiet as I myself work.  At first I felt jet-lagged and lonely, but now I feel like I&#8217;ve adjusted to my own personal time zone, and have acquainted myself with those around me ...]]></description>
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		<title>why college?  (part ii)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“A great good will impart great good.  If then the intellect is so excellent a portion of us, and its cultivation so excellent, it is not only beautiful, perfect, admirable, and noble in itself, but in a true and high sense it must be useful to the possessor and to all around him&#8230; &#8230;diffusing good, or as a blessing, or a gift, or power, or a treasure, first to the owner, then through him to the world.  I say then, if a liberal education be good, it must necessarily be ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=306</link>
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		<title>why go to college?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think although college is pretty much expected today in our country, you could probably get by without it.  So why go?  I think the answer is not as obvious as it might seem.  I think probably the number one reason people go to college is just because of an expectation put on them by society or by their parents.  This I believe almost defeats the reason of going to college.  I&#8217;m not saying you shouldn&#8217;t encourage people to go to college or educate them about college, I&#8217;m just saying ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=299</link>
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		<title>why go to church?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been the question on my mind for a while.  I don&#8217;t know yet if I have a satisfying answer to the question, but here are some of the things I&#8217;ve been thinking about:  My main objection to going to church is that can&#8217;t I not do all that stuff on my own and do it the way I like it as opposed to the way it is dished out Sunday after Sunday?  And honestly, there are Sundays were I don&#8217;t want to meet people at church, why go ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=294</link>
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		<title>further reflections on first semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many a run on the trails and roads around campus and quite a few walks by the Yellow Breeches River through out the semester, I&#8217;ve come to appreciate this place.  At my better moments when I think of Messiah College I think of a quiet strength and gentle beauty tucked away in these rolling hills in central Pennsylvania.  When Derek Webb came here to perform, he leaned in and said between songs &#8220;By the way, I get what you guys are saying here, and I like it.  You have ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=289</link>
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		<title>finishing the first semester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Patience is not indifference; patience conveys the idea of an im-mensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts.&#8221;  -Oswald Chambers
As my first semester at Messiah College comes to a close, I reflect to find that it has been one both of much change and of much waiting.  I began the semester with my heart set on studying as a music major and of immediately finding a home for myself.  Neither have come to pass.  My music teacher advised me not to major in music because I had a weak sense of rhythm ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=281</link>
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		<title>habakkuk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning as I open my bible I flip to Habakkuk and read the last few lines:
&#8220;Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the deer&#8217;s;
he makes me tread on my high places.&#8221;
~Habakkuk 3: 17-19a
If I take this ...]]></description>
		<link>http://gavinkirk777.com/?p=274</link>
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