Day: November 7, 2009

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the week in tweets – 2009-11-07

  • if anyone has lottery prayer mojo i would appreciate you using it over the next 5 months for me & jim & jill to get into the NYC marathon 🙂 #
  • i just found out that there is a guy coming to tapestry who was once a champion dog sledder. how cool is that?!?!?!?!? #
  • hanging with @ppolnaszek & @johnthemember and being amazed/scared of how much coffee they drink. they've had 4 cups since i've been with. #
  • policeman loses nose in circumcision ceremony http://bit.ly/wT2AJ. made me think of @sptapestry and smile. #
  • Consumerism is about disacquiring as much as it is about possessing – Peter Sedgwick #
  • morning is jambalaya prep time. afternoon is jambalaya making time. evening is rest from jambalaya making time. now is walking the dogs time #
  • @Joshross – pam is having one of her classes over to the house in reply to Joshross #
  • @dannygilliam – that comes later tonight but wouldn't fit in 140 characters in reply to dannygilliam #
  • @pamelaaugust has a class over to the house for a movie that relates to their study & supper. fun introducing wisconsinites to jambalaya. #
  • finished the second to last paper for "doctrinal foundations of contemporary ministry." not reading "knowing GOD" again for a long time. #
  • @eLP88 make sure it is a good filling lunch because bama likes its tiger meat marbled #tigerssuck #rolltide in reply to eLP88 #
  • pam is pulling for the wrong team to win! http://twitpic.com/on8l0 #
  • @eLP88 exactly! how about them tigers? #tigerssuck #rolltide in reply to eLP88 #
  • @nicoleccausey no pam is wrong! 🙂 rool tide! in reply to nicoleccausey #
  • RAMA JAMA! #
  • @nicoleccausey yes pam is awesome but in regards to lsu she is just wrong! roll tide! in reply to nicoleccausey #
  • @nicoleccausey – i agree it was probably an interception BUT do you really think it would have made a diff? in reply to nicoleccausey #

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conspiracy of grace

and now for yet another reason i love being a part of tapestry.

one of our guy’s life has changed dramatically over the past 18 months (i will call our friend “fred” from now on). he was doing some things that are no longer who he is. a girl that he “hooked up” with over 18 months ago called him to tell him that he was the father of an 8 month old baby boy that he didn’t know about. surprise.

fred’s son lives with the girl back in fred’s hometown in the upper peninsula of michigan. this is around 5 hours away. fred wants to be the best father he can be, supporting his child, spending time with him, and generally fathering. therefore he drives back to his hometown every weekend to take weekend custody of his son and then he drives back to point for school to go to uwsp on monday mornings.

so he sent a message to me asking if tapestry could pray for him. he wasn’t sure how everyone would respond but he really wanted people praying that he would be a good father to his son. i passed it along he got more than he asked for … in a good way.

the next day i received a phone call from someone asking for fred’s address so they could send him a gas card to help with all the travel. this quickly moved from a gas card to a gas card baby shower. fred came over to pam and my house thinking he was coming for supper and was surprised with a male oriented baby shower (brats, root beer, etc). some groups might have responded in judgment but tapestry responded with an awesome night of grace and love. it was a terrific night.

yesterday i received the following message from fred:

I cannot express how much the congregation of Tapestry means to me. As much as I appreciate the many gifts, I appreciate something else much more: friendship/family. People who are already counting pennies giving up money because I needed it, brings tears to my eyes. When I told my parents, my mother was crying and I was fighting the tears at the party. I am proud and thank God for each and everyone from Tapestry. I LOVE YOU ALL!!