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My High School Years: Hi-C Club

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/007-2.jpg When the bus could’t go any further, this is how we got to our destination at Arrowhead SpringsI am in the upper right corner. Hi-C actually started in Junior High, as I have already…

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My High School Years: Sports

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/008-2.jpg This was taken from my year book. That’s me on the left being congratulated after a grappling victory. I have far more memories of sports than any of my classes, or anything else in…

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Positive News Tidbits, 4/6/20

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/011.jpg I love to hear positive news, even while we are going through this pandemic. Here are some bits of positive news, and some positive thoughts. Unlike most other nations, Finland has been stockpiling medical…

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My High School Years: The School and Classes

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/016-2.jpg This is West High school. I took this picture from my year book. West High school was torn down not long after I graduated, in 1969, to make room for condominiums. I always thought…

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My High School Years: House and Family

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/house-at-3608-colfax.jpg This is the house I lived in during my high school years. This picture was taken in 2018, 50 years after I lived there, but it looks exactly the same. During my high school…

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8th and 9th Grade: The Good and the Bad

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/001.jpg After 7th grade, where I lived in Montevideo, we moved again, back to Minneapolis. I think I remember that my dad wasn’t doing too well and spent some time in a mental hospital. Meanwhile,…

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7th Grade: A New Life

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/008.jpg As I sped down the hill on my new black Schwinn bicycle, a new assurance gave me an overwhelming joy. I was saved and I had a place reserved for me in heaven. This…

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Positive News Tidbits

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/014.jpg On the road, from Minnesota to Texas I thought it would be good, in these troubled times, to bring a bit of positive news. From my newspaper I read the good news that because…

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Visiting Grandparents, Part 2

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/007-1.jpg This is grandpa and grandma Anfinsen celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. My grandparents on my mom’s side were a lot different than my grandparents on my dad’s side. Grandpa was a house painter for…

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A New Prayer Focus: Reopen the U.S. by Easter

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/easter-reopening.jpg President Trump suggests the high goal of reopening the county on Easter Sunday–April 12th. woke up extra early this morning and was unable to fall back to sleep. I had on my mind what…

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