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		<title>My Japanese friends got jobs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just thought I&#8217;d share my joy from finding out that my 3 Japanese friends just completed their job search. Naoki, Eiichi, and Satoshi were like brothers to me while they visited Seattle for an international business program in 08-09. I was blessed by seeing them a few months ago when I visited Japan and praise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why God loves support-raising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few quick thoughts (no particular order) I&#8217;ve had about why God loves support-raising:
1) It spreads His fame. The reality is, I share God&#8217;s work in my life and the lives of others more passionately and frequently because I need people to help me. The seasons where my need for support are greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Keller on why Tokyo must be reached</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this today through my friends at Grace City Church in city center of Tokyo. 2 minute video of Tim Keller, who wrote The Reason for God and pastors in Manhattan.

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		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/uncategorized/tim-keller-on-why-tokyo-must-be-reached/</link>
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		<title>A Son Never Forgets: 13 Lessons My Dad Taught Me Before He Died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled “30 days for dad.”
In the fall of 2003, during football season of my senior year of high school, my dad began to notice a pain in his back. After going in for a scan that revealed a tumor, we discovered that the tumor was cancerous. This news came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/a-son-never-forgets-13-lessons-my-dad-taught-me-before-he-died/</link>
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		<title>WSJ article on children who lost parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled “30 days for dad.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280400596257236.html
This article was a painful and refreshing read. Well done.
For me, reading this brought me to the brink of tears. I read it surrounded by people working on their computers, so I controlled my emotions best I could. I just miss my dad, still&#8230;there isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/wsj-article-on-children-who-lost-parents/</link>
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		<title>6 years later a dying man came to Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled “30 days for    dad.”
6 Years Later
Ever since my dad died I have fought to believe in the Christian promise  of hope–that God does what is best for his children, for me. It is a  belief that not one moment of suffering is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/6-years-later-a-dying-man-came-to-christ/</link>
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		<title>The day my dad died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled “30 days for   dad.”
 My friend told me the other day that these posts were really encouraging. He lost his dad in 2003. I asked him for feedback to make them better and he said, &#8220;They are great. They are REAL. and thats why I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/the-day-my-dad-died/</link>
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		<title>How to be &#8220;good news&#8221; to suffering people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled “30 days for  dad.”
You can&#8217;t change the fact that losing someone you love, or dealing with a really bad situation that can&#8217;t be flipped around, just really really really sucks. So don&#8217;t try to come with a tool box to &#8220;fix it.&#8221; We live in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/how-to-be-good-news-to-suffering-people/</link>
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		<title>It gets worse before it gets better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post in a series titled &#8220;30 days for dad.&#8221;
This may be uncomfortable for some, but I am going to keep writing about the fear, confusion, and pain of loss and suffering before I talk about the more &#8220;feel good&#8221; stuff. My reason behind this is, quite simply, because though joy is mingled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stevesakanashi.com/30-days-for-dad/it-gets-worse-before-it-gets-better/</link>
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		<title>30 days for dad: I am writing again&#8230;for my dad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next 30 days (&#8220;30 days for dad&#8221;) will be spent making public the private blessings I have enjoyed as a son, remembering the life and death of my father, Mark Sakanashi, who died six years ago on May 19, 2004. My hope is that his life, imperfect as it was, and he was, will [...]]]></description>
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