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January 21, 2007
Paying for It
We've had quite an adventurous weekend. Well it was actually just Saturday. And man we are paying for it. Ugh. But when I was feeling beyond exhausted this afternoon and thinking I was going to skip church, I thought about if it was wrong to do any of the things we did yesterday. And I deduced that God wanted us to do it all in a very short amount of time. And I'm here to tell about it.
We met with Caroline, our bitchin' real estate agent, to look at one of the homes in Jefferson Heights. Not the one we're buying, but one that's more finished. We wanted to look at the materials we were picking out on a grander scale to make sure we liked it. All this is so exciting, I can't reiterate that enough. What an amazing occurance, the revamping of the southside. So we are hanging out in the house for a while and the builder comes in with a potential buyer. Turns out its a friend of mine from highschool! Crazy. Justin was like,"Katie you don't recognize me do you?" That's when the lightbulb turned on. Joel said, as we went to romp on the playground,"How much more likely is he to buy this house knowing we're 2 houses down?" Pretty cool knowing your neighbors.
After a futile trip to the lighting store and finding the tile store was closed we got our little family home. Joel and I planned to go to the TenShow, a graphic design juried show. This show was in an old A.M.E. church that Cessna Decosimo owns. The ambiance was incredible! The art was great! And the turnout was totally insane. So many bodies. I'd like to think they were all here to look at sweet graphics and support the reviving of Main Street but there was free booze. Booze=Turnout. Amazing paper-like light fixtures hung in the center of the main rooms. They were beautiful and I should have taken a bunch more shots of the one in the main room.
The best part of this show was that we got reconnected with old friends and met some new ones. John Sweet was serving his awesome bread with Dice mingling about. Met some of our new neighbors Christie and Butch, and met Caroline's husband, we hope to get them outta Ringgold and into Jefferson Heights! Ran into Mason, one of Kirk's highschool friends. Mason is fixing up a house on Mitchell Ave. I mean, how amazing is this.
Mason's dream is to finance some sort of market on the Southside. I'm all for it, down with Bi-Lo and Walmart!! Finally met blogging creative cohorts Mark and Amber Cooley, great to come full circle on these relationships! But the best surprise by far was to learn that D-Master, Darren 'the Birdie' was in town to wish cousin Brian a happy wedding.
We mosied down to the Pickel Barrel to catch up and ended up travelling to LaMarr's and closing them down at 3am. So again I say UGH. But great fun was had by all. Joel and I along with Cat and her brother Aaron bonding over PBR with Darren was so worth the groaning. I really believe that it's all part of building community.
As Bucky reminded us at church tonight, community is what the church is for. I am so looking forward to seeing what God will do with the Southside of Chattanooga. I wonder what our little family has to contribute. And the fact that the motto/theme of all this is 'Revival Main' and it begins in a church building, I don't think it's just a play on words. I think there is power in what's going on. It's very important to follow that money. Because no matter who is writing the checks, it all belongs to God.
"There's a lot of money out there, and God wants to give it to us!" SpC
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yeah i was paying for it yesterday-i was such a grouch! our times together are invaluable and community is vital. i'm so glad to be apart of the main revival:southside RULZ!!!
Posted by: cat at January 23, 2007 10:13 AM
mason smith or mason neely?
Posted by: kirk at January 22, 2007 10:46 PM
