[Oe List ...] FW: Story of Denver Religious House

[Marge Philbrook]

Wonderful Story - I'm encouraging 'everyone' to write stories about their
memories so we can keep these remembrances in the archives.  You're the
greatest!  Marge Philbrook


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Paula Philbrook
<paula.philbrook at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great Story- share the photo with all of us!
> Paula
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> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Lynda Cock <llc860 at triad.rr.com> wrote:
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>> *Subject:* Story of ****Denver**** Religious House****
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>>  ****
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>> We learned to live simply in Religious Houses.  We needed people out on
>> the road recruiting courses, raising money, setting up programs, and
>> working with communities, so as few people as possible were assigned to get
>> real jobs to pay the bills.  Sometimes that meant that our food budget
>> provided only rather basic foods.  We worked hard, but there was also a
>> dynamic of celebration that seemed to magically appear from time to time.
>> ****
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>> Dear Guardian Lee Sugg was helping watch over us when he won a $1000
>> grocery buying spree in a local store contest and presented it to the
>> Denver House.  Some of us old skinflints thought of a whole year's worth of
>> oatmeal or grits, but our always-hungry-youth saw this as a special gift
>> that should be honored by also getting special treats.  With a little help,
>> they cased the grocery store to find out some key luxury items that would
>> add a little zip to the daily fare.  Special requests were for good cuts of
>> meat and seafood that we could freeze.    ****
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>>  ****
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>> I can't recall the exact details, but I think we could have four persons
>> with a cart or carts going in different directions in a maybe 20 minute
>> time span.  Whatever we could get in those carts up to $1000 was our
>> take-home prize.  I recall that it was after the store had closed so the
>> aisles were all ours to race in without interference.  Our fastest runners (Larry
>> Hamje was one) were the designated shoppers with the rest of us cheering
>> from the sidelines and pointing the way to things we thought should be in
>> the carts.  The store manager was the announcer over the speaker system
>> giving us the On Your Mark, Get Set, and GO signals, as well as calling out
>> the remaining time.  I don't recall how we came out money wise, but I
>> recall it was close and we were breathing deeply as the cash register rang
>> up sub-totals.  What a grand time we had loading up Lee's pick-up and
>> heading back to the house to sort through those bags and bags of
>> groceries.   What a great party we had with some of the special cheeses and
>> meats and fruits that we picked up.  I think Martha Lee Sugg also bought
>> some good wine soda to go with our goodies.  What wonderful food we enjoyed
>> from the pantry and freezer for many months. ****
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>>  ****
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>> Thank you to all the magicians in our corporate lives who knew the needed
>> dynamics of a winning team.  ****
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>>  ****
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>> This memory was sparked by finding a photo of Lee Sugg being presented
>> the winning ticket for the shopping spree which I am passing on to Martha
>> Lee.  Someone probably has a photo of the truck load of groceries and
>> may have corrections or additions to this story.      ****
>>
>>  ****
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>> Lynda Cock****
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> Paula
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> *Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
> enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
> confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
> a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace
> for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow*.
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