{"id":548,"date":"2015-10-10T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2015-10-10T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:05:26","slug":"grateful-and-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Grateful and Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things for which I am grateful: spending time with Nehemiah and friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/oc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">OC<\/a> (photo below), a couple of days in a cabin in the woods, a second car for Albuquerque, a wonderful place to stay in the Albuquerque foothills with a gorgeous view of the Sandia mountains, seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymineo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Mineo<\/a> in concert with my son, the ability to catch up with many friends, the chance to make some new friends and a great birthday celebration with my wife.<\/p>\n<p>I am also grateful for the opportunity that the Lord has opened up for Donna and I to develop a new relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/centercitychurch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center City Church<\/a> in Albuquerque. We will be speaking there about what we do in Africa for about 10 minutes tomorrow (Oct 11, 2015). If any of you are in Albuquerque and would like to come hear us share, the service starts at 10AM. Center City Church is at: 5202 2nd St. NW, ABQ 87107. (Shares a building with a TV repair shop and garage). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5202+2nd+St+NW,+Albuquerque,+NM+87107\/@35.1351166,-106.638261,16z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8722737b28a98621:0xfcdb097f3224c4ba\" target=\"_blank\">See map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I am truly grateful for what God has done, there are some difficulties that Donna and I are working through with some relationships.\u00a0 Sadly, distance and time away sometimes takes its toll.\u00a0 We would covet your prayers and wisdom concerning these.<\/p>\n<p>Paul<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/10\/20150927_121809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/10\/20150927_121809-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20150927_121809\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150927_121809-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150927_121809-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150927_121809.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things for which I am grateful: spending time with Nehemiah and friends at OC (photo below), a couple of days in a cabin in the woods, a second car for Albuquerque, a wonderful place to stay in the Albuquerque foothills with a gorgeous view of the Sandia mountains, seeing Andy Mineo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}