<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3583861273040819362</id><updated>2012-01-01T11:43:19.434-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Living By Faith</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adiva.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3583861273040819362/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adiva.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Archives Diva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350421183226245054</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLdCU_Qmkjc/TpubvNoKRnI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KHCzELNyfmY/s220/Mary%2BLee%2Bpublicity.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3583861273040819362.post-5181912483122316442</id><published>2012-01-01T11:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T11:43:05.620-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In the Beginning</title><content type='html'>I have decided to blog about my experience of living by faith. I know that may sound crazy to you but it is what I have been learning the past few years and I need to write about it every day in order to do two things. First, I need to write everyday in order to be a writer. Second it might help someone besides me to hear about the joys of living by faith and some of the many trials.&lt;br /&gt;Who am I ? I am a North American, Mainline, Liberal Protestant, Presbyterian by choice and by heritage. I am a woman, I am ordained as a minister of word and sacrament or what is called a teaching elder. I live in Chautauqua New York and there are only 4 Presbyteriann churches in Chautauqua County. I worship most Sundays with the Wright Memorial Presbyterian on the Cattaragus Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians. We usually have 6 people in worship.&lt;br /&gt;I hope to say more about each of these aspects of my life as I go along but now I am writing mostly just to write and to get started. I have been unemployed by an organization since August 15, 2010 or April 15, 2011 depending on how you count my severance from the Presbytery of Western New York.&amp;nbsp; One of my great spiritual journeys is about money - having enough when I need it, wanting to give more of it away if I had it, wanitng to be able to do as I feel I have been called without worrying about it. This might be called a money blog and that may be the basic subject of many of the postings because that is where my learning curve of faith is right now.&amp;nbsp; I hope that this blog is more interesting in the future - yes it would be nice to have a book out of it and a national following and all that but right now the point is to help me live day by day, knowing that my daily bread, my daily needs are met. &lt;br /&gt;So here it is&amp;nbsp; - the first of the new blog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3583861273040819362-5181912483122316442?l=adiva.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adiva.blogspot.com/feeds/5181912483122316442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://adiva.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-beginning.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3583861273040819362/posts/default/5181912483122316442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3583861273040819362/posts/default/5181912483122316442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adiva.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-beginning.html' title='In the Beginning'/><author><name>Archives Diva</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350421183226245054</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLdCU_Qmkjc/TpubvNoKRnI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KHCzELNyfmY/s220/Mary%2BLee%2Bpublicity.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
