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		<title>Choosing Character Over Comfort… Again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For once, I completely disagree with Shakespeare.  All the world is not a stage.  Mine is more like a dusty, sweaty workbench. This current season of life finds me blogging less and praying more &#8212; because more days than not, my experiences belong in a personal journal meant only for God and me, not for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2215&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Broken Hallelujah</title>
		<link>http://emilysutherland.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/2206/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Emily Sutherland&#039;s Blog: Today, the kids were out of school in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. A big part of me wished I had been more intentional in carrying on Dr. King's work by serving our community, but it was a more of an introspective, quiet experience at our house. My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2206&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5,000th Responder To This Poll Gets a Free Puppy :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for me to make some important (and long overdue) decisions about the focus of this blog.  And since this blog is here for YOU, not me, I want to hear fromr YOU, my incredible core of readers! Would you mind answering a very, very, VERY quick questionnaire below to give me some valuable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2198&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frolicky Friday Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t do nearly enough frolicking.  In fact, I don&#8217;t mind admitting that I actually had to look up how you spell it.  So clearly, I need to have a little more free-spirited attitude up in here. It&#8217;s Friday. The perfect day to frolic*.  (*This form of the word drops the &#8216;k.&#8217;  I did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2186&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Is Out Of My Hands</title>
		<link>http://emilysutherland.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/2013-is-out-of-my-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Sutherland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So 2013 is well underway; yet, in my mind, I am still mired up in last year.  Today, January 10, my Christmas tree is still up.  For once in my life, I am not inclined to propel forward. What I accomplished &#8211; or rather, didn&#8217;t accomplish &#8211; in 2012 sits like a cartoon demon on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2172&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Still and Know.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Sutherland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my son and his friends had rehearsed most of the afternoon preparing to lead worship for our church today.  The adult worship leaders were all out of town this weekend, so Jackson, Drew, Laekin, Shane and Scott had been called up from their usual place leading worship for student ministries to play for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2154&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Blog From This Valley</title>
		<link>http://emilysutherland.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/a-blog-from-this-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil Wars sing a song called “From This Valley” that has been rolling around in my head for days.  And while its fun, lighthearted melody &#8220;rolled around&#8221; it, actually began careening into the deeper folds of my heart, where things are not quite as lighthearted at the moment.  The title “From This Valley” pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=2130&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s OKAY to ask WHY.</title>
		<link>http://emilysutherland.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/its-ok-to-ask-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I drove my parents nuts when I was younger because I had to know the &#8220;why&#8221; of every rule, every request, every responsibility&#8230; everything! The old tried and true &#8220;because I said so&#8221; response would have made me lose sleep at night wondering,&#8221;Who are these imposters who called themselves my parents and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emilysutherland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5474946&#038;post=1784&#038;subd=emilysutherland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday – May 30, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 13:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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