[Magdalen] RAM clinic this weekend

[Jay Weigel]

Have a great weekend, Grace! Looking forward to doing one in July.

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, tomorrow morning I will leave on a trip to Southwest Virginia to
> volunteer for a couple of days at a Remote Area Medical clinic in Rural
> Retreat. I left a piece of my heart in that part of the world about 25
> years ago, and I'm so glad to have the opportunity to go back and do
> something useful. The clinic will run from Friday morning through Sunday; I
> will have to come back Saturday night, because we have the Bishop
> visiting on Sunday morning, and a friend and I are celebrating at a Celtic
> Eucharist in the evening.( I expect to sleep all day Monday!)
> Tomorrow I will also have the great good fortune to spend the afternoon
> with Helen Lewis in Abingdon. She has been a friend and mentor since the
> summer I spent in Berea during seminary, and at 92 she is as energetic and
> inspiring as ever.
>
> And I had a wonderful piece of good luck today regarding housing for this
> weekend.  They had originally told me that they couldn't provide any
> low-cost housing for this event, so I had made reservations at a place not
> too far from the clinic site. Then yesterday, along with the list of
> last-minute information, they included the names of several people who had
> offered to house the RAM volunteers.  I emailed two of them, and when I
> hadn't heard by about 6 this evening, I decided that was that. About 7:30 I
> got an email message from a woman who said she'd been working in her yard
> all day and had just checked her email.  She had one room left and asked me
> to get in touch as soon as possible, because she'd had another email after
> mine.  So I called her right back--and I have a place to stay for free!
> She sounds delightful, and when she told me that she was sorry she hadn't
> answered the first time I called because she was on the phone, and she's
> never figured out how to do call waiting, I told her I thought we'd get
> along just fine!
> So I called and cancelled my hotel reservation, saving about $130!
>
>  Life is good... Prayers for traveling mercies will be appreciated.
>
> Grace
>
>
> --
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer*
>