Super Ben Funds

[Fiddleback]

Folks, I feel so good inside each time I write a check to support Super Ben (Ben Ruppe). As I know the family personally, I know exactly how much your love is helping them. This weeks check is for knife sales and three donations. Please Please Please don't send donation funds to us at Fiddleback Forge. It has created a huge overhead for Ken to decipher and track this money and I can't stand to think we might miss any. So, if you want to donate funds to Super Ben, please send it to the Go Fund Me account listed in the previous thread. That account has taken quite a few gifts and I am again swolen with pride thinking of how you are helping this family. The knife community is on it. We are a strong, kindhearted, loving community full of cutlery loving fools, and I'm so proud to be a part of it. If I had known how this kind of service makes my heart feel, I'd have started this a long time ago.

Thank You.

 

[Bill510c]

This is a wonderful, generous , beautiful endeavor that you and the rest of the Forge have undertaken. So admirable on several levels. I'm proud of all of you, proud to support you, what you do and to have been able to help. Keep up the great work, you guys are definitely the kind of people we need more of..

 

[RRaconteur]

If I had known how this kind of service makes my heart feel, I'd have started this a long time ago.

That right there is why I do what I do, too. There's so much about my job that sucks, plain and simple. But that (rare) moment when you see things come together and a person or circumstance is changed, it makes you feel willing to do ANYTHING to make it happen again, for someone else. It is truly beautiful.

Thanks for stepping up and inspiring this generous community of yours to give even more.


Michael

 

[schmittie]

Andrew, you prove that Acts 20:35 is true.

 

[SA Condor]

Andrew, you prove that Acts 20:35 is true.

It really is! Far to often we are 'me' focused, and when we follow the Biblical principle it is incredible hiw awesome it feels to serve and help others! The Ruppe family is learning some amazing lessons through this trial too. One of them being how to receive such blessings. I remember one time when we were heading to Bolivia and somebody insisted on paying my bill. I told them there was no need! They rebuked me and said, 'Don't be guilty of stealing my blessing!' Wow, what a lesson in humility! I was too proud to let someone else be a blessing! I pray that the Ruppe family will grow through this trial and this community will continue to rally around this family. We all can make a difference in this life when we take our eyes off ourselves and look to the needs of others!

 

[FeralGentleman]

You all are amazing people. I've been following the updates and Ben looks like an awesome and loved kid.

 

[Fiddleback]

It really is! Far to often we are 'me' focused, and when we follow the Biblical principle it is incredible hiw awesome it feels to serve and help others! The Ruppe family is learning some amazing lessons through this trial too. One of them being how to receive such blessings. I remember one time when we were heading to Bolivia and somebody insisted on paying my bill. I told them there was no need! They rebuked me and said, 'Don't be guilty of stealing my blessing!' Wow, what a lesson in humility! I was too proud to let someone else be a blessing! I pray that the Ruppe family will grow through this trial and this community will continue to rally around this family. We all can make a difference in this life when we take our eyes off ourselves and look to the needs of others!

When I first got on the phone with Becky about doing this I had three minutes to talk between grinding steps. I should have waited and done it in the evening, but I was so excited. I was talking fast and had spilled it on her within a minute of picking up the phone. Dead silence. Then I realized she was crying. She never said anything but thank you though. I let the call go till it needed to and pushed back my grinding. It struck me that I had walked into the situation that unprepared.

Your wisdom about accepting gifts touched me. Thanks for posting it.