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December 2006 – Issue 40/40



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Greetings!

The 77% Weekly:
The Religion-Outside-The-Box Newsletter helps
people find and be with (the) God (of their
understanding) 40
out of 52 weeks a year.


Religion-Outside-The-Box is a non-denominational,
internet-based, 501c3 tax
exempt religious congregation.







A Prayer for the Year.
 

Rev. Jeremy Taylor, an ordained
Unitarian Universalist minister and Jungian dream
analyst
said something I wanted to pass along as my final
message
of 2006:

Amen.

Gratitude: what a
beautiful concept on which to end this year.

As this is the last issue of the year, let me
publicly thank
those who in 2006 made financial
contributions to Religion-Outside-The-Box:

Anonymous / Robin Shanker & Joe
Anzelmo / Larry Arnold / Andrea Aucoin / Daniel “Nagy”
Buckley / Lawrence & Sherri Cirac / J. Doug Cox /
Maxwell & Allyson Frome / Erik, Pam, Madeline, & Charlotte
Hartog / Matt Katz / Lawrence &
Virginia Keene / Shirley Kesler
/ Julie
Klee / Steven Krantz / Mickey Littmann / Mitch
Lively &
Don Blum / Graham Morris Animation / New Linkages
Internship Program, Jewish Vocational Services /
Sheldon
Renan & Roberta Margolis / Marjorie & Steven
Rheuban
/ Catherine Rosenberg / Sarah Smith / Arthur Toretzky /
Westwood United Methodist Church


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Thank you and with love,

And, as always, if you care to, you can click
to see comments on the streetprophets site where the
article also went up this week.















With much love,








Rabbi Brian

Religion-Outside-The-Box




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