THE ADVENTURE OF THE TRAVELING TIDBITS (by Donna)

At the onset of the Scarf Sister reunion, I embarked on a ten day vacation. A splendid, relaxing and joyous ten days.  Returning to work, however, called for some readjusting/ reverting to the old way of life of being awake all night, sleeping into the day.  My first shift back I was extremely tired.  When I arrived home at the end of my shift,  I took a few minutes to check/answer my emails,  facebook updates and to send a message to Cathy about finishing up the sock adventure. Before shutting down the computer, she responded to my message and also made a comment about brainstorming about the next adventure.

I headed to bed and slept a good portion of the day. Now I am not one that has many dreams or even remembers many of them, but on this particular day/night there was one that stayed with me…and I decided to share it with Cathy….and now with you….

A few of the scarf sisters were gathered, discussing where to go to lunch. I have no idea where we were, what town, or even what country, etc.  Cathy, Pat, Cheryl, Lidia, Terry, Felisol and I were people I knew in the dream.  An older couple, a short stocky man with a huge mustache and his itty bitty shy wife, were the strangers and only other participants. The man was standing outside his restaurant waving us over, trying to coerce us, with less than pleasant words, to come inside the restaurant; unfortunately,  breakfast was all that was being served and none of us wanted breakfast food. He was being very bossy and became very agitated that we wouldn’t eat at his establishment. We told him we were ladies of the  Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarf and we were looking for a place to have lunch, not breakfast and wanted to sit a bit and discuss what our next adventure would be.  

He noticed  Cathy carrying a small box , pointed at it, asked what Tidbits were, in a not so kind tone of voice. Cathy corrected him by telling him the name was Timbits and then went on to explain the history of the Tim Horton’s establishment and how Lidia had wanted to have a coffee there while she was in the US visiting from the Philippines and that one of the sister’s,  Tricia in Michigan, loved to go to Tim Horton's every Tuesday night with her friend Peg and that our beloved Canadian sisters also spoke highly of the place....He looked at the box and saw Dad Golden’s name and the John 3:16 scripture written on it for him and said He had not heard that scripture in a very long time and he started to weep because he had forgotten about God and the story of Jesus. Cathy  then told him the story of Dad Golden and how he had become the Dad of the traveling Sisterhood and explained how we were all praying for him and that he was Felisol's prayer child. 

The man apologized for being so cantankerous with us  and suggested that our next adventure should be " The Adventure of the Traveling Tidbits". After all, he said, a tidbit is nothing more than a small morsel of food and/or a small piece of news or information…and to him, it sounded like we were making it our business to spread the Good News and surely knew how to touch people with our stories....because we surely had him.

There was no other scripture given me in the dream other than the one Cathy read off the box….John 3:16

After sharing the dream with Cathy, she adopted it as the theme for the next adventure, The Adventure of the Traveling Tidbits.  The scripture verse that came alive to her is Psalm 78 1-4.   

This is how the adventure will work. 

I have obtained a Timbits box, which is collapsible and can be easily mailed. As it is passed from sister to sister, each one writes a tidbit(s), a delightful morsel, an experience of how SHE has spread the Good News and/or  how her life has/was/impacted by the sharing of the The Good News.  Write and share as many as you like, expand on the blog, but remember that the pieces of paper travel with the box from one sister to the next. Each sister also adds a scripture to the outside of the box.

I am honored, excited, happy, blessed to start off this new adventure and pray each of us receives into our hearts, the richest of  blessings and deepest and greatest of love that can only be known by meditating and sharing in the Good News of our Lord.