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Vol. 18, No. 6, August 8, 2005

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This Reveille Home Page | Friday Program: Grace Happens | Friday Potpourri | Sergeant At Arms Corner | SeaFair New Member Mixer | Web Fun

the friday program:
Grace Happens

Jenny Andrews introduced Reverend David Tinney, Pastor of the Aldergate United Methodist Church. In 2002, David and his daughter had decided that they would participate in the Seattle-to-Portland bicycle ride, something that David’s daughter could fondly remember them doing together in years to come. As he was practicing for the STP and traveling downhill at about 30 mph on Newport Way, teenagers riding in a car pulled up next to him and deliberately pushed him off of his bike. The impact left him paralyzed on the asphalt with a broken shoulder, shattered elbow, broken ribs, a punctured lung and brain damage. With the help of a passing realtor, the teenagers were apprehended. An off-duty policeman happened upon the scene and, with his help, David got to the hospital and started a long journey of physical rehabilitation.

One of David’s surgeons, who was about to start working on his punctured lung, told him that it would be a very delicate operation and that he should prepare himself, mentally, for it. At the time, David was feeling very angry toward the teenagers who had caused him such serious injury, but he decided to let that anger go to help himself, mentally, through the operation. Leading a prayer from the pre-op gurney, he asked for forgiveness for the teenagers right now.

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Thought for the week

There are two types of people: those who are more for getting, and then there are those rare few who are more for giving.

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Mark Hough, Steve Lingenbrink

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Jim Kindsvater

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