{"id":262,"date":"2017-09-25T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/?p=262"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:10:43","slug":"a-ball-of-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/2017\/09\/25\/a-ball-of-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ball of Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday I became a part of a beautiful story.\u00a0 If you want to feel warm and fuzzy, grab a coffee, sit down, and read.\u00a0 This is a story about love, connection, beautiful people, children, and a ball of yarn.<\/p>\n

John and Mary (not their real names as they wish to be anonymous) are cottagers that have been supporters of the food bank for 3 years.\u00a0 Their concern is that Muskoka children be warm in the winter months.\u00a0 They value greatly the dignity of the individual and feel strongly that one way to build up the self esteem of children is by giving them good quality brand new winter coats, boots, hats, gloves and scarves.\u00a0 They go around in the spring on their own initiative and take advantage of the winter clearance sales.\u00a0 The first year they brought a few items, last year 20-30 coats and boots.\u00a0 Well, last Thursday they showed up with an SUV packed to the gills with items for Muskoka’s kids!<\/p>\n

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volunteers unloading ” a ball of yarn”<\/p><\/div>\n

That is wonderful in itself but the story gets better.\u00a0 Last year John and Mary went around to church Christmas bazaars looking for items for their ministry.\u00a0 They stopped at 1 table of hand knitting and the lady asked them which toque they would like to purchase.\u00a0 Mary, with a grin on her face, said she would like to buy all of them.\u00a0 When the lady recovered she asked why and Mary explained that she wanted to help economically disadvantaged children in Muskoka.\u00a0 The bazaar lady thought for a moment and then explained that she and a friend were both retired with time on their hands.\u00a0 They both love to knit but their difficulty is that they have limited financial resources themselves with which to buy the wool.\u00a0 Resourceful Mary said that she would supply them with wool if they would knit for the children.\u00a0 A partnership was formed.<\/p>\n

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But the story gets better still!\u00a0 Last summer Mary was visiting in Port Carling at a local gift store.\u00a0 She and the proprietor were having a heart to heart conversation as they had both lost their mother over the previous winter.\u00a0 Somehow the conversation got around to knitting and the story of the 2 retired ladies down south that were knitting for the food bank but did not have enough wool.\u00a0 The proprietor began to tear up.\u00a0 Mary asked her what was the matter and she pulled out a huge ball of wool from under her desk in the gift shop.\u00a0 She explained that this ball of wool was her mother’s and she didn’t have the heart to throw it out but did not know what to do with it.\u00a0 She gave it to Mary and asked her to give it to the 2 knitters to knit items for the food bank.\u00a0 Needless to say the knitters were deeply moved by learning the origin of this ball of yarn.<\/p>\n

They spent last winter turning the ball of yarn into toques, mitts, and scarves which were brought up on Thursday night to the food bank.\u00a0 This is quite a yarn of a tale!\u00a0 We are now knitted together through love for kids, desire to encourage respect and dignity, desire for meaning and purpose of some elderly ladies, sharing of sorrow, and the birthing of new life and hope in the hearts of Muskoka children as they receive their brand new winter coats, boots and hand knit woollies.\u00a0 God is GOOD!<\/p>\n

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Last Thursday I became a part of a beautiful story.\u00a0 If you want to feel warm and fuzzy, grab a coffee, sit down, and read.\u00a0 This is a story about love, connection, beautiful people, children, and a ball of yarn.
\nJohn and Mary (not their real names as they wish to be anonymous) are cottagers that have been supporters of the food bank for 3 years.\u00a0 Their concern is that Muskoka children be warm in the winter months.\u00a0 They value greatly the dignity of the individual and feel strongly that one way to build up the self esteem of children is by …..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}