All You Need is Love. . .Everyday

Hello Friends and Welcome to the Liver Blog! Thanks so much for coming over. Thanks for the comments on Bob's power suit. ;-)

I just wanted to prove to you that we really were working this week while Becky was here from HQ. This lunch outting proves it, right? Anyway, here's the Lutheran World Relief Minnesota staff delegation minus Diane, who really was at the lake this week. (There are many, many volunteers to be added to this delegation. For another blog.)

Here we are plotting for peace and justice for everyone in every generation all around the world. Isn't that what you do when you're 21 years old? We're still doing it. Introductions according to duties:
Mary (print dress) -- Director of Inspiration
Becky (light blouse) -- Director of Imagination
Joanne (black right) -- Director of Appreciation
Me (black and pink left) -- Misdirector of Complication; grateful to work with people who have their heads on straight as opposed to 3-D dyslexic 'ol me who is so glad they hired a poet for a president.

We have similar color palets too. Black, white, bold. Well, OK, looks like Becky can get away with a pastel too. Lucky. One day I'll get a picture of Mary's doggie and tell you the duck-in-the-lake story. Becky will tell you that while in Minnesota she scrubbed pots at Joanne's and folded clothes at our place, but don't you believe that.

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Tonight for prayer requests, if you're the praying type, here's our list:

• Jean and Alan
• Aaron and Lisa
• Cynthia and Steve
• Kids on the myspace website and parents trying to figure out what to do (to be blogged about later)
• Monet and Marleigh
• Aleena
• the memory of Melissa
• Fathers, here and there, near and far
• Bob's call
• Patrick's call, everyone's call, the call process
• Bob's surgery, honestly, he's starting to get nervous -- I'm telling him this: you go to sleep and then you wake up, you're sore, and you just let people take care of you, you heal and you're back 100 percent, even better than now
• Me, that I can meet my deadlines before drifting into open heart never land, which I already feel like we're sliding into. . .

You know what, you're all awesome and I wish I could be with you all right here right now. As Steven Stills says, if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. As Jesus says, love your neighbor as yourself. As Dave Matthews says, all you need is love. . .everyday. As I say, sending this with lots-o-love.

With love, T