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		<title>Time to unpack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve lived in Minneapolis for nearly a year and STILL have boxes I’ve never unpacked. My friends routinely make fun of my lack of real furniture and I’ve failed to decorate my walls—even with *NSync posters. Last month a co-worker asked, “How long are you staying in Minneapolis? You don’t seem like a huge fan.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=531&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Monday night during the spring semester of my sophomore year I remember  begrudgingly sneaking out of my apartment to walk into an emotional hell. There were always really great sugar cookies though. Some weeks we would go around the room and share why we were there: “My son was killed by a drunk driver [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=517&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I moved to Minneapolis a wise woman who prays a lot told me: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to cry&#8230; A LOT&#8230; 너무 힘들어!” To which I responded with an awkward smile and head nod in an attempt to cover up my utter fear. Initially, I thought she meant there would be a lot of tears, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=504&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hellooo Minneapolis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I relocated to the Twin Cities (no, not champaign-urbana) last week, I have had the pleasure of making a few new friends. There&#8217;s one special little boy who enjoys sporadically throwing himself onto my body, as if I were a city building wall and he were transformed into spiderman. I may be unemployed, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=495&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OVERWHELMED&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;by GRACE! A little more than a month ago I learned it was going to cost a buttload of money to fix my car&#8211;which I&#8217;ve been driving for a month even though the car guy told me I shouldn&#8217;t&#8211;oops! I&#8217;ve literally been doing nothing about it except making phone calls (and spazzing to friends&#8211;thanks for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=476&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immeasurably More</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. &#8211;Ephesians 3:20-21 Recently my pastor exhorted these veres to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=473&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the way to the last day of my grad assistantship, I went out of my way to frolic  along the &#8220;scenic&#8221; route through the Quad. Sitting on the steps to Foellinger, you can&#8217;t help breathing in the nostalgia&#8211;it&#8217;s crazy to think of all that God had done in the last  four&#8230; I mean six&#8230; years on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=467&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few weeks I&#8217;ll be finished with grad school and moving on to a new city, church, ministry, roommates, job, (hopefully) car, and probably a lot of other things I&#8217;m avoiding dealing with right now. As the days on my apartment lease continue to dwindle, my anxiety and me-centeredness seems to continue to balloon. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=457&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steadfast love of the Lord never ceases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopeless. I see it everyday working in child welfare. Parents severely abusing their children. Exposing them to violence, crack, sexual predators. Chains of poverty holding them in a cage, while the man holds the keys. Finally, a parent succeeding. Rehab completed, minimum wage job holding their head above the water. Then the court system and white-middle-class [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=435&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Orphanage Ministry Volunteer Opportunity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerusalem Ministry is the NGO in Seoul, Korea that I worked with for a year while I was an undergrad. Volunteering with this ministry impacted my life like CRAZYYY (including the reason why I&#8217;m in grad school for Social Work&#8211;and almost done!). It was through this ministry&#8211;working with the kids, praying for their hearts, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4436846&amp;post=426&amp;subd=elanameesun&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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