August 21, 2006
Bike Commuter
The good news is that Erica was hired to teach at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institue. She will be teaching the public speaking course for some chefs in training. It is a nice opportunity to work with students again. The bad news is that Le Cordon Bleu is about a 10 mile commute from our home in downtown Minneapolis. As part of our desire to simplify, we have been trying to make just one car work for our family. With both of our long commutes to our jobs, we have had to be a little creative with Erica’s commute to her new job. Erica has joined the ranks for the bike commuters (there are alot of them here in the twin cities). Her commute involves riding her bike to the light rail, taking the light rail to a state park, riding wooded bike trails through the park and over a bridge spanning the Mississippi river with a view of both Minneapolis and St. Paul and onto to the front door of her work. Total commute time is about an hour. The jury is still out on if she will enjoy her commute and even look forward to the ride through the woods to work. For now, we’re going to try to make it work; happy trails!
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August 07, 2006
Friends Up North
We had freinds from Kansas City come in for a visit this week. It was an awesome time of exploring the city, catching up on our lives and enjoying good food and drink. Our friends are from our Kansas City community at Jacob’s Well Church. Our friends Jeff and Amy attended the church that we have been attending up here, The Upper Room. The service was an outdoor service on the lawn overloooking Normandale Lake. I had a nice teaching moment laying in the grass listening to some things that ring true in my life. It is good to be in the presence to others. I believe that God has created us with a desire for relationship and it is good to be in the presence of those whom we love. I also think that God blesses us relationally with people in our lives and we shouldn’t take for granted those people in our lives who give us life and make life that much sweeter.
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