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Hi All!

Looking for another person or persons to rent a room near SDSU area; off Collwood and Madison. Sorry no pictures are available but the apartment can be viewed via the landlord. The apartment is a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment, with totally new kitchen and new carpet throughout! Rent for the whole apartment is $1065 plus SDGE. Parking is sufficient on the street and washer/dryer is shared between 2 other tenants! Please email below for further details or to chat! We are two easy going, clean, active, fun girls who love family, friends, and traveling! Looking to move in end of August. 6 month lease.

Thanks!

Please contact: bmcghee0@gmail.com; that is a zero at the end before gmail!

Did you know that anecdotal figures show that 80% of students fall away from their faith between graduation and retirement? Did you know that 8 million live in Greater London, where 40% represent an ethnic minority, 320 languages are spoken, and 600,000 are Muslim?
Join us this Sunday August 1, 2010 at 4:30pm to learn more about Campus Crusade’s marketplace ministry in the heart of London where Jon and Kathy Horne are missionaries. You will learn more about how you can pray for them as they continue to share what God is doing in the lives of young adults in one of the most strategic, post-Christian cities in the world.
Kathy Horne is currently visiting the U.S. to raise financial support and help teach others about the needs of London. There’s no obligation to give. Just come and eat some free food, have a refreshing drink and listen as Kathy teaches us more about Campus Crusade’s marketplace ministry in the heart of London.
Please RSVP before Saturday 7/31 by calling Scott Murphy at 858-405-5065 or via this Evite.

You can make others feel safe while enjoying live music, great food and helping the Homeless of downtown San Diego during the July Jubilee Season of Service event.

You can learn more about July Jubilee here.

We need a few brave men and women who can sport a ‘S’ on their chest with style and commit to helping out to make this event happen.

Here are the details.

Who: You (and/or your friends)
What: Security @ July Jubilee Homeless Ministry Event
When: July 31st ~ 11:30am-4:30pm
Why: because you rock and it is part of the Season of Service
How: again – YOU make it possible, so come help out.

Steps You Can Take Now

1. Contact Reuben @ (760) 822.0556 or sign-up @ www.JulyJubilee.org today.

2. Spread the word on Facebook – Tell Others About the Event – click here.

3. Invite your tough friends to help out as Security or in a variety of other ways. Have them sign up here.

Thank you!

Image credit: ittybittiesforyou

i just got a job buying back textbooks with nebraska book company. i have a mobile device that scans the textbooks, tells how much money each one is worth, and then loads a visa card with money that i give to the student. the rates that i can provide are almost always higher than the on-campus bookstore as well as other buyback stores. i can come to anyone, and would love to set up appointments with groups to buy back all of their books (group of friends, sororities/fraternities, christian clubs, etc).

please text only to (402) 875-2791 to set up a time and place to meet up.

thanks for all of your help, i look forward to getting your books,
betsi clark

Hello,

I am a freelancer for any and all marketing needs for small or large companies. I have experience in in-house marketing, agency side marketing, small, large and medium sized companies. I have worked in traditional marketing, interactive/online marketing, social media, email marketing programs, e-commerce, Web site optimization, SEO, paid search, etc.

Companies I’ve worked for include NBC, Red Door Interactive, and other smaller companies in CO and TX. I am also currently taking classes in photoshop classes to broaden my skill set.

If you are interested in taking on a contractor for any/all marketing needs, please email me at Jess.L.HillCU@gmail.com or call me at 830 570 3961.

Thanks, Jessica Hill

Hello,

My name is Jessica, and I am looking for a part time and/or full time nanny position that would start immediately.

I graduated from the University of Colorado with two bachelor degrees: Spanish and Marketing. I love kids, and have babysat all ages since I was in high school. I am in fluent in Spanish, and so if there is interest in teaching your child/children Spanish, that opportunity is there as well. I am extremely active, energetic and absolutely love to be outside anytime I can. I currently live in OB (just FYI on location for anyone a little outside of San Diego).

Please feel free to email at Jess.l.hillcu@gmail.com or call me at 830 570 3961.

Thanks a bunch!

Jessica Hill

Room for rent. $500/month-to-month plus utilities. Beautiful home to share. Very spacious, with huge kitchen. Laundry facilities. Wireless internet and cable. Bedroom can be furnished or unfurnished. Males preferred. We are a middle aged Christian couple and easy to get along with. Very central location: near interstates 805, 94, and 15. Close to SDSU and downtown San Diego. Must be responsible, working full-time days and/or student. Call Ann for more information, 619-672-9246.

I am offering music lessons throughout the entire San Diego area, for the guitar and bass guitar.  I can teach all styles of rock, as well as jazz, worship, blues, and metal.  Pricing is $15 per lesson, and I will come to your home for lessons.  If you are interested, please email me at justinadair0129@gmail.com, or call me at (949) 422-7812.

“God I am lost and confused and I do not know where you are in my life. I cannot feel you like I used to and I feel as if you have turned your face from me!”

This is a common prayer for people who feel distant from God. This is the type of prayer that is resonated through Psalm 88, and this is the type of prayer that St. John of the Cross wrote extensively about. This feeling of distance and isolation was one that was very familiar to him as he faithfully served God even in the midst of his own great spiritual darkness which he calls “the dark night of the soul.” The perspective he brings however is significantly different than what we might expect. He defines the dark night of the soul as a time when God desires for us to grow deeper. He writes that “The ‘dark night’ is when those persons loose all the pleasure they once experienced in their devotional life. This happens because God wants to purify them and move them onto greater heights.” Interesting.

Is he trying to say that God at times will intentionally bring us into times where we feel distant and separated from Him? Yes, but it is for our own good. It is for a greater purpose that we probably do not understand at that point, and most importantly, it is out of His great love for us!

Later on in the his book, he writes that:

[God’s] love for us is not content to leave us in our weakness and for this reason He takes us into a dark night. He weans us from the pleasures by giving us dry times and inward darkness…Through the dark night pride becomes humility, greed becomes simplicity, wrath becomes contentment, luxury becomes peace, gluttony becomes moderation, envy becomes joy, and sloth becomes strength. No soul will ever grow deep in the spiritual life unless God works passively in that soul by means of the dark night.

These times of darkness and distance can very well be gifts of God presented to us for our own growth. God has not left us there, He has brought us there. There is some way in which He desires for us to grow in order for us to truly experience Him in a more complete way. God’s joy is not for us to be stagnant in our faith, but to come to a deeper lasting knowledge of who He is and how He desires our lives to be played out.

This is why we must hold onto the truth of Christ and the recognition that God is the “God of my salvation” as Psalm 88 is keen to point out to us. This psalm does not end in hope, but that does not mean that hope does not exist. We must cry out to God openly and honestly as we trust that as He has brought us into these times, He will be faithful to lead us out again. He has our best interests in mind. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Scott E. McGhee