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BodyPrayer 22

From BodyPrayer:

A Prayer for Mercy
There is a depth and wideness in God’s mercy that does not originate in us. This mercy extends beyond our inadequacies, failures, and sins—and is not limited by them. It is this mercy and kindness that lead us to repentance and change. Mercy serves as a new beginning, even a remaking. We are not left to our own efforts or compulsions; we are invited into new life. This is how those who are shown mercy become the merciful; and blessed are the merciful. May we pray and live in such a way that all would have the power to grasp how wide, long, high, and deep is the love of God.

The Well

Shelley and are are starting a business. It is a combination of a Natural Cafe/Jusice Bar/Coffee Shop/Natural Health Center.
We are going to call it THE WELL.

We are buying a house tomorrow that we will renovate. The first level will be the Juice Bar/Coffee Shop/Cafe and the second floor will be office suites for natural health practitioners. The location is Chicago Ave and 27th Street - right across the street from the front doors of Abbot Northwestern Hospital and their natural health healing center.

The house was built in 1890 and we have some renovating to do to get it back to its original charm, but as far as houses like this go it is in really good shape.

We have much work to do with the City of Minneapolis and the Zoning Department for the Juice Bar part, but the office suites will be ready to go by March.

So, if you know anyone looking for office space, natural health related, or not (we are not limiting it to NH practitioners, but do think it will be the ideal tie-in with the Juice Bar and the hospital) let them know about our space.

The price for suites range from $500-$900 per month depending on the size. This includes utilities and parking.

BodyPrayer 21

From BodyPrayer:

A Prayer of Refreshment
Being replenished is an essential part of life. We are created as beings in need of rest, food, encouragement, and refreshment. Without refreshment, a life will shrivel and die. This is true of our bodies and our spirit.
Refreshment brings revival—new beginnings. It can nurture a body, a mind, and a spirit. When one is refreshed, he or she starts anew. We pray and live as those who seek the refreshment of God in our lives and in the world. We long for the revitalizing life of God to be apparent everywhere. We seek goodness from hurt, and beauty from ashes, and life from death.
Knowing that God will refresh the weary and satisfy the fainthearted sends us into the world with the word of life

BodyPrayer 20

From BodyPrayer:

A Prayer for Redemption
Redemption can mean to repurchase, ransom, release, rescue. It can mean deliverance. Redemption is central to our life with God, for God brings release, rescue, and deliverance. God is the Redeemer, the One who finds value in things that we may not. God liberates and frees us, so that we may live into our full intention of being active participants in the story of God. (1 Corinthians 1:30-31.]
We are pursued and redeemed because we are deeply valued and loved of God. It is those who understand their value, as being worthy of redemption, who are able to recognize the same value in others. So we pray and live as released, rescued people through the work of the Redeemer, and we ever seek the value in others who are being redeemed.

Weather Extremes Minneapolis and San Diego

Shelley and I are going to San Diego in a couple of week. So I was looking at some weather information.
I was struck by the averages on these graphs between Minneapolis and San Diego.

Average high and low for Minneapolis

Average high and low for San Diego

Minneapolis With Records

Yeah baby that is a 149 degree swing

San Diego with Records

Social Network and Bible Names

KPG has sure been busy on the blogs today.
Another one from her.

This will be helpful in explaining to people the distinction in bounded set, center set and relational set models.

Social Network of Bible Names

More Babies than deaths

Meat Loaf from KPG

I knew that Cory Carlson and I were not the only Meat Loaf fans.

Search with Meat Loaf - who would have thought?

(Please, all comments must include a Meat Loaf song lyric - to which you would say, "I can do that")

BodyPrayer 19

From BodyPrayer:

A Prayer of Hopefulness
Faith, hope, and love come from the same Origin—God. (1 Corinthians 13:13.] There are few things we need more than hope. Hope allows us to trust beyond what we see with our eyes, and connect to that which we know in our very being must be true. Hope doesn’t fail, rather it lifts up; hope is not wishful thinking, it is a deep knowing; hope is not vain attempts to make things seem better than they are, it is knowing that things are more than they seem. Hope springs life, and life eternal. As we pray and live as hopeful people may we be mindful of those who need hope and do not have it. May we have hope for those who lack hope.