cue the twilight zone music
April 28, 2007
Tonight I am working on the raffle. I hope to have it all typed up by tomorrow.
I printed all the comments out from the giving post. Then, with the help of my children, cut the paper up into 350 individual strips of paper. I used my 2 yr old son’s safety scissors, because the all real scissors seem to have walked away from the house.
Then we folded all those individual strips of paper and put them into a big stock pot.
The children all took turns drawing.
I put the strips of paper they drew into a pile.
(I promise this story is going somewhere…)
I straightened up the pile and smoothed it out. I flipped them upside down and wrote the prizes on the back in the order I had posted them.
(Here is where the story gets good…)
Several days ago I received an email from Heather’s father. It was incredibly touching. In the email he wrote how meaningful one of the photos (link to photo here) that was taken by stacy, jurgen nation, was to him and his family. Stacy had said that to her the photo signified strength in the face of the unknown. I have been meaning to call stacy this week and let her know. And knowing her as I do I knew that she would want to send them a print. But I didn’t have stacy’s phone number. (Uh, hello stacy I lost your new, new, old, new number. Call me, love.) And somehow I never got around to emailing her because I am a very bad emailer. Very bad. People who know me know that it is nothing personal if I don’t email them back for days, weeks, or ever.
(Back to the story at hand…)
So tonight I am going through the papers and typing out who won what from whom, and once again marveling at the generosity that people have shown. Wishing I knew how to type. When I see that Heather’s comment is one of the ones that was chosen by my children.
I flip it over and see that she won the print from Stacy.
Yeah. Cue the music.
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That sent chills up my spine. I believe that God LOVES to do things like that just to get our attention. Thanks for all you’re doing on Heather’s behalf. She’s a true inspiration.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:43 pmMeant to be! Hearing things like that gives me faith in the universe.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:57 pmKarma or divine intervention this print was meant for her family.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:07 amThat is fabulous. So glad it is going to her.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:37 amI’m a sobbing bag of snot. I’m so emotional.
[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED. Stacy will be given a swift smack upside the head. Done with love, of course. -chris] I don’t have your phone number (it’s at work), but call me when you have a second. I had a comment all written out, but I don’t want to until I talk to you first. I don’t want to screw anything up. So call. Please note that if you call me Sunday morning I am THREE HOURS behind you. Just saying. Your 9:00 is my “WHO IN THE HELL IS CALLING ME” hour.
If you’re up tonight, call - I’ll be up until at least 3 your time.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:41 amWow - that is incredible. Such a God thing.
And to all of you warm, generous, kind-hearted people who donated items: THANK YOU. I can’t say that enough.
(but thanks again. just had to say it one more time.)
April 29th, 2007 at 12:53 amWOW! Glad to hear I am not alone in being the worst emailer. How cool that the kids are involved in the raffle!
April 29th, 2007 at 1:52 amI am smiling. Not at all surprised. This is wonderful!
April 29th, 2007 at 7:13 amvery cool…
is it just me, or should Jurgen Nation’s phone numbers be removed from the comments?
[No, they should. And they were. Feel free to give her a loving smack too. -chris]
April 29th, 2007 at 7:51 amCool!
April 29th, 2007 at 8:35 amSo cool. God is amazing that way sometimes. (Okay, most times!)
April 29th, 2007 at 9:15 amwow spppppppoooooooky
April 29th, 2007 at 9:45 amThat is so bizarre! I love God’s surprises!!!
April 29th, 2007 at 9:59 amI think that what you did to collect all of the amazing donations and the beautiful gifts and then to organize all of the gifts for all the donations is beyond wonderful. Thank you for your heart, and I wish Heather and her family the very best.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pmSorry. I was so exhausted and more than a little loopy.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:21 pmgreat story and terrific outcome. thanks for doing this.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:24 amGod does work in mysterious ways.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:22 amGod’s fingerprints are all over this, you know that!
What an awesome God we have!
April 30th, 2007 at 11:10 amWONDERFUL……..that’s the good stuff.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:17 pmtruly, a miracle *happy sigh*
April 30th, 2007 at 1:01 pm