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		<title>Robert Gibbs, here I come!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time I dreamt of being the White House Press Secretary. I distinctly remember Ari Flescher, Mike McCurry, Scott McCllelan, and my favorite, CJ Cregg   They were intelligent, quick with their words, calm and collected under pressure, full of wit, and sassy when need be.
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		<title>&#8220;Find My Family&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never knew it was so cool to be adopted until recently. I just got done watching ABC&#8217;s premiere episode of &#8220;Find My Family&#8220;&#8211;a show where they reunite &#8220;families&#8221; that have been &#8220;separated&#8221; by adoption, war, high school sweethearts, twins, etc.
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		<title>Happy &#8220;Orphan Sunday&#8221;??</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the web I came across a blog proclaiming that today was &#8220;Orphan Sunday&#8221; &#8212; a day for the Church to stand up for orphans and bring awareness to their needs and adoption. 
Does the name &#8220;Orphan Sunday&#8221; sound a little tasteless to anyone else but me? Maybe it&#8217;s just because I take everything a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=379&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H1N1 Sabbath</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s like we spend all this time trying to figure out how to &#8216;play the game&#8217;, but really it&#8217;s just about knowing the Father&#8221;
&#8211;someone from SG last night (&#8230; the persistent coughing stole whoever said it from my memory)
I never thought I&#8217;d be so joyful to get the flu. (It&#8217;s kinda funny to say I have H1N1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=360&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must&#8230;break&#8230;cycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I interned with an agency that works with parents that are at-risk for having their children placed in foster care because of abuse/neglect. (Comments about my internship have been altered for confidentiality). While working with the moms and dads in a group therapy setting, I was always struck by how initially judgmental (in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=344&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I prefer making sandcastles out of cement.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”  What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 
-Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
For the past few weeks my small group at home has been studying Ecclesiastes . At first I just wanted to rip out the pages of meaninglessness, &#8220;under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=309&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 percent is a big number</title>
		<link>http://elanameesun.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/50-percent-in-a-big-number/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

On May 31, 2009, the Illinois General  Assembly passed a partial budget  which created a $9.2 billion funding gap which is now forcing draconian cuts in fundamental state services.


 Severe cuts in the State human services budget will have serious adverse consequences for local governments, public safety agencies, the courts and corrections.   Slashing funding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=293&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncomfortable assurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was talking to one of my transracial Korean adoptee friends about how weird it was to be back at home in the relative homogeneity of central Illinois for the summer, and not around people who know what samgyopsal and patbingsu are. She empathized, &#8220;You don&#8217;t realize how uncomfortable you are, until you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=270&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I asked for silver, You gave me gold</title>
		<link>http://elanameesun.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/i-asked-for-silver-you-gave-me-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only been home for the summer for 9 days, yet i&#8217;m quickly realizing more and more how my prayers and my faith are so small.  BUT,  I can&#8217;t stop Him (in my smallness/lazyness OR my over-achiever- goodness) from giving me gold.
It&#8217;s such an odd thing to go from a lifestyle of little sleep, daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=250&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing myself to blog.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I originally started blogging years ago when I went on a short term missions trip and to Korea to keep friends/family in the loop, but I just haven&#8217;t found a good enough purpose to keep it going regularly since I&#8217;ve been back.
Eventually my blogging became reduced to pages of narcissism and lameness. But here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elanameesun.wordpress.com&blog=4436846&post=245&subd=elanameesun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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