Great Memorial Service for Dave Piona
Today, I was honored to be at Dave's memorial service! Star, Dave's daughter did a great job giving a message and putting together a great slide show of about 75 photos of Dave with his family, church freinds and his pool friends. Christina & Star were surrounded by many friends who really care, and the church itself was packed and I believe there were about 125 pool players there or more along with another 175 made up of church friends and family.
We were all in tears and I personally got to see (2) things happen this week to tell me that Dave's timing to meet his Lord was definitely in the Lord's hands and these short (2) stories are a witness to God's hand moving in Dave's and our lifes and the stories go like this .....
Today, as I was driving to the memorial service which is about (1) hour from my home as I was coming up on the exit on the freeway to the church Dave attended, in the slow lane was a red pickup truck. As I was looking inside the truck's bed sure enough right in front of me was a full size slate pool table laying on its side in the bed of the truck. I said to Robbi as I was exiting the freeway WOW can you believe that! What a blessing to see a pool table right in front of me and I am going to Dave's service and what are the chances of seeing that and I notice also all the cloth had been removed from the table. For 44 years I have driven down the freeway and have never seen a pool table laying on its side or a pool table in one piece. I have seen juke boxes and video games but no pool tables.
As I exited the freeway I started thinking what does that mean? As I started thinking it all came to me, guess what, there are NO boneyards or dump sites where you find slate pool tables and rails on the ground, pool tables are all usually Resurrected !! They are normally refurbished and brought back into use. As for the table's cloth missing, as we stand in front of God Almighty in Revelations in the Bible it says that when we receive our resurrected bodies the Lord himself is going to give us some new clothing, in Revelations that clothing is called new "raiment." So from there, I could invision the table and Dave being brought back to life and recovered and I am sure Dave would have wanted to be the first person to hit a ball on the new table.
So what are the ODDS?? of going to a friend's memorial service with the impact Dave had on pool and seeing a pool table pass right in from of you as your are going to see Dave's family and his pool friends here in the Bay Area?? How about maybe (1) in a billion or greater? To continue with the next story which also took place just (3) days ago I will start another page ..... and it is just a dramatic!
Today, I was honored to be at Dave's memorial service! Star, Dave's daughter did a great job giving a message and putting together a great slide show of about 75 photos of Dave with his family, church freinds and his pool friends. Christina & Star were surrounded by many friends who really care, and the church itself was packed and I believe there were about 125 pool players there or more along with another 175 made up of church friends and family.
We were all in tears and I personally got to see (2) things happen this week to tell me that Dave's timing to meet his Lord was definitely in the Lord's hands and these short (2) stories are a witness to God's hand moving in Dave's and our lifes and the stories go like this .....
Today, as I was driving to the memorial service which is about (1) hour from my home as I was coming up on the exit on the freeway to the church Dave attended, in the slow lane was a red pickup truck. As I was looking inside the truck's bed sure enough right in front of me was a full size slate pool table laying on its side in the bed of the truck. I said to Robbi as I was exiting the freeway WOW can you believe that! What a blessing to see a pool table right in front of me and I am going to Dave's service and what are the chances of seeing that and I notice also all the cloth had been removed from the table. For 44 years I have driven down the freeway and have never seen a pool table laying on its side or a pool table in one piece. I have seen juke boxes and video games but no pool tables.
As I exited the freeway I started thinking what does that mean? As I started thinking it all came to me, guess what, there are NO boneyards or dump sites where you find slate pool tables and rails on the ground, pool tables are all usually Resurrected !! They are normally refurbished and brought back into use. As for the table's cloth missing, as we stand in front of God Almighty in Revelations in the Bible it says that when we receive our resurrected bodies the Lord himself is going to give us some new clothing, in Revelations that clothing is called new "raiment." So from there, I could invision the table and Dave being brought back to life and recovered and I am sure Dave would have wanted to be the first person to hit a ball on the new table.
So what are the ODDS?? of going to a friend's memorial service with the impact Dave had on pool and seeing a pool table pass right in from of you as your are going to see Dave's family and his pool friends here in the Bay Area?? How about maybe (1) in a billion or greater? To continue with the next story which also took place just (3) days ago I will start another page ..... and it is just a dramatic!
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Ron I was there too. I have been friends with Dave since about 1962. I haven't seen you since room with a cue in dublin in about 2000. Dave and I worked together , lived together and were lifelong friends. I'm trying to get in contact with Mike Zimmerman from the old days in Walnut Creek. Maybe he will see this and let me know his Email. I am going home now to hit a few on the gold crown dave found for me a few years ago....Mike