By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/30/2009 6:52 AM
I reach in my pocket grasping for my keys to unlock the cafe. Cafe 41:11 is still asleep; enjoying a few more hours of frosty darkness until the warmth of the sun touches the west side of the building. I pass through the early morning shadows entering the train car in a personal morning fog...but on a mission. (BTW - I'm NOT a morning perso ...
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/26/2009 1:32 PM
 "Tim, do you have five bucks I can have to put gas in my car?"
When my friend asked me that yesterday, time stopped. The grand and historic trees around Medina shook. Thunder and lighting clanged inside my heart producing a freakish hail storm that pounded black and blue marks on the skin of soul. Basically the earth stopped rotating on its axis.
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/25/2009 1:23 PM
 Clouds creep close together slowly blocking the afternoon sun. Young and old gather at the cafe for hot chocolate and soup. It's a beehive of activity when a man in a denim coat steps through the red train car door and approaches me saying, "I need to talk to you for a minute."
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/17/2009 1:20 PM
Spring arrived early for me. I sat on the step of my porch during a lunch break enjoying the warm, bright sunshine. When suddenly a honeybee buzzed over my noggin heading for a small patch of crocuses blooming in my wife's garden bed. I thought: WHOA!! My first bee sighting of the year. The bee found the flowers and went straight to work. It floated clumsily around the purple petals as if today was its first day of flight. The bee gathered pollen with each landing. Its dainty legs slowly inflating with the orange dust until it looked like a child wearing floaties at the city pool. It was so cool to watch. I'm not going to try and make some spiritual or biblical connection between ...
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/12/2009 12:32 PM
*submitted by Jeff Brianas. Jeff volunteers with Janis Nazarian on Tuesday nights 6 to 9 p.m.*
The other night at the Café was not unlike previous Tuesdays. ...
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/11/2009 9:15 AM
 I sipped my tea thinking about the next sentence to write. My trusty laptop computer (I call him Mr. HP) hummed and whined begging for me to pound my fingers on his flat keypad. Mr. HP is like 7 years old. That's nearly young enough to collect a pension. The age of a computer in human years is a more dramatic increase than the age of a dog in human years. Anyway, Mr. HP was my companion Tuesday at the cafe. He's been helping me write a new book.
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/5/2009 2:32 PM
I was enjoying a bitter buffet lunch consisting of a healthy portion of "what I don't have" along with a generous scoop of "I don't make enough money." So I called a close friend for encouragement. He says to me, "Maybe you need to spend time being thankful for what you have."
He's right.
So I sat quietly and told Jesus that for which I'm thankful. Belo ...
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
3/2/2009 11:41 AM
 I was in a fierce wrestling match last week with that great masked avenger: The Common Cold. He is a worthy adversary, but eventually I won. I pinned him to the mat, and I'm feeling better today. Although, I had some help. There were no metal chairs, ladders, or 2x4's at the side of the wrestling ring so I grabbed orange juice from the fridge, water from the faucet, a sturdy cardboard box of Kleenex, and two of my closest friends.
Rich and Lyle answered ...
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
2/27/2009 10:24 AM
People were generous in the month of February. We raised enough to pay the bills for March. So, we'll be open another month. Our bank account is pretty low. (I know...shocking, right!?) Please ask God to provide during the month of March for us to have the money to pay April's expenses. The Founding Families Mural is up!! My camera was not capable of focusing in close enough to legibly read the individual names. (Sorry  ). But, you can still enjoy seeing it on display at the cafe. You can double-click on any of the photos to enlarge them. Enjoy! Read More »
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By Tim Van Arsdale on
2/12/2009 11:46 PM
Some of you are relatively new to these e-news articles and the Café 41:11 ministry. Welcome to the group! I can’t wait to see how God is going to grow and stretch your faith and use you for His glory. The rest of you have faithfully prayed for, and supported, this ministry since my family took a step of fait ...
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