<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress.com" -->
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
	xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
	xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
	xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
	>
<url><loc>https://jimfriedrich.com/2026/10/15/the-spirituality-of-hope-election-edition/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>The religious imagineer</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-10-15T19:52:29+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>The Spirituality of Hope (Election Edition)</news:title><news:keywords>Wallace Stevens, mortality, autumn, Letting go as spiritual practice, Hope, Poetry, No Kings march, writing, Election Day, Building his city in snow, Loss, Pamela Steed, Rosanna Warren, poem, poems, Nature</news:keywords></news:news><image:image><image:loc>https://jimfriedrich.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/img_5110.jpg?w=150</image:loc></image:image></url></urlset>
