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	<title>Hugh Hollowell &#187; Adoption</title>
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		<title>I Can Imagine Nothing Worse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the writing gigs I do is reviewing books and writing blurbs for &#8220;Christian&#8221; oriented books.  One I am currently working on is Fields of the Fatherless, by Tom Davis. A beautiful book, I was particularly taken by the introduction by Steven Curtis Chapman, a Christian recording artist. In the introduction to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the writing gigs I do is reviewing books and writing blurbs for &#8220;Christian&#8221; oriented books.  One I am currently working on is <a href="http://www.fieldsofthefatherless.com/" target="_blank">Fields of the Fatherless</a>, by <a href="http://tomdavis.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Tom Davis</a>. A beautiful book, I was particularly taken by the introduction by <a href="http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/" target="_blank">Steven Curtis Chapman</a>, a Christian recording artist. In the introduction to the book, Chapman talks about his family&#8217;s decision to adopt a daughter from China back in 2000, named Shaohannah Hope.</p>
<p>In the introduction he tells what his wife said said about Shaohannah:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;When they handed me Shaohannah, God was more real to me in that moment than He ever had been. It about knocked me down!&#8221;.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080521/TUNEIN/80521174/1005/ENTERTAINMENT" target="_blank">Shaohannah died last night, ran over in her own driveway in a horrible accident</a>. And the person who ran over her was her own brother.</p>
<p>The pain the Chapmans are feeling right now I cannot begin to imagine. The pain their teenage son must feel and live with, knowing he killed his sister&#8230; I shudder even thinking about it. More than anything today, I pray for the Chapman family to be able to sort through the pain, the anger and the despair and know that they are very loved.</p>
<p>I believe that if God could have prevented this, He would have, and I believe that Shaohannah&#8217;s death grieves Him in ways I cannot fathom and I know that one day, when the dream of God is fully realized, when things are on earth as they are in heaven, wrongs like this will be made right. I will just be glad when it gets here. We are hurting, creation is groaning, waiting for that day.</p>
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