400-Tent Safe Sleeping Area for Homeless Near Balboa Park

Mayor Todd Gloria on Friday opened a safe sleeping area for homeless individuals near Balboa Park that has capacity for 400 tents.

The site on a city parking lot near the Naval Medical Center can accommodate up to 800 people at two to a tent. Other amenities and services include meals, restrooms, showers, laundry, storage trailers, case management, basic needs assistance and resource referrals.  

“Building on the success of our first safe sleeping site, the O Lot is an opportunity for many more people who’ve become homeless to work on getting back on their feet in a safe, sanitary environment,” said Gloria.

The safe sleeping area on the O Lot near Balboa Park. Courtesy of the city

Men inhale their beliefs

“Men inhale their beliefs from the atmosphere which happens to surround them. This is true in every department of thought, e.g., politics, art, religion. Were Christians asked to-day for the reasons of their belief the many (should they answer truly) could only reply, “We inhaled it.” They did not reach it by thorough, independent, untrammeled investigation.” - E. NISBET Rock Island , Ill. , June 17th, 1876

Life after death

Life after death, a situation in which honest and friendly workers in all the various occupations of men before death will be provided with larger powers and opportunities to work on the unfinished universe of God, and in which the persistently dishonest and unfriendly will necessarily experience growing weak­ness, idleness, and consequent pain. Edward Increase Bosworth (1861-1927)

describe speaking or praying in tongues

I realized on this trip (the trip to NC in October 2006) that ecstatic is not the way we ought to describe speaking or praying in tongues. Ecstatic has implications of emotionalism.  In my experience I have come to see as non-emotional and non-ecstatic the praying and speaking in tongues. The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet and therefore what comes out of us is subject to us. The expressions we use to describe our experiences disclose our view of God, the world, sin and the devil. The new creation man is responsible to build with nonperishable materials like gold, silver and precious stone. Our position in eternity will be established by how we build on the One Foundation. Why is it that in the unredeemed (unregenerate) man we speak freely of his psychic life and ability but once he is regenerate there is no talk. I don’t believe that man is any less psychic after the new birth.