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Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
The magnitude of what's happened and continues to happen in Haiti is overwhelming. As I put my money in the special offering at church this morning, it just felt so insignificant.But here's something else we can do RIGHT NOW to make a huge difference in...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
I spent last week in Juarez, Mexico with a group from the University of Illinois Springfield and Lincoln Land Community College. In 3 days, we built a home with Casas por Cristo for a strong woman named Alma and her 4 kids.We built a home smaller th...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
Tomorrow we're headed to Juarez, Mexico with a team of college students from UIS to work with Casas Por Cristo. In my absence, I thought I'd leave you with a little entertainment from Selah and her cousin, Katelyn on the morning after Katelyn lost her f...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
Routine isn't a word that evokes great passion and excitement from most people. It sounds boring...ordinary. But over the years, I've come to understand that routine can be something wonderful.It helps me prioritizeI want to make important things part of...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
It often gets lost in the busyness of Christmas and Mission Trips and Family visits.....but I am so incredibly grateful to have had such an amazing partner to do life with these past 18 years. I love you, Todd!
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
there's nothing like going to a funeral for someone who loved Jesus. We'll miss her greatly, but Grandma Magruder was ready to go home.there's never enough time to do everything i want to do before ChristmasI may not be losing lots of weight over the ho...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
My friend Natalie has the gift of gift-giving. I'm not sure if it's one of the Spiritual Gifts, or a character quality God gave her, or something she's developed over time, but she always seems to give great gifts. Not expensive or flamboyant gifts, ...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
When Selah came, she had no idea who Santa was.The first Christmas song her 1st grade class learned this year was \"Santa Claus is Coming to Town\", which has ended up being a little traumatic. More than once, she's asked me if Santa really kno...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
10 years ago this month, my husband and I were walking across the lovely campus of University of Evansville where he had been guest-preaching for a couple of days. He had been doing alot of that lately - preaching at retreats and conferences. I have alw...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
I'm not of the camp that says you can't spend money at Christmas. There are some who would say (or maybe not say, but imply) that you don't love Jesus if you decided to shop on Black Friday. That's not me.I would say you don't love Jesus if you didn't...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
We're fortunate to serve on a university campus where service and social justice issues are given considerable attention. This week was Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on campus, and students collected items for the food bank, donated coffee mugs ...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
Our kids had a 5 day weekend this week. If you're not a parent, you may have some nonsensical notion that such news is exciting, but quite honestly, it had me a little nervous. In order to deflect some of the excessive togetherness, I decided to invi...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
It's not because I'm a natural. Or because I have an endless amount of patience for other people's kids. Or I like noisy, chaotic enclosed spaces.And if I'm honest, there days when I dread helping in the children's ministry at our church.But then I mee...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
What if this year, Christmas didn't make me feel soStressed outUnpreparedInadequateRushedPoorBusyAnd instead, was a time of WorshipCommunityLaughingSharingServingPlaying
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
It's 6:10am and I hear her early-morning footsteps on the stairs. I'm reminded of the talk we had just the day before about staying in their beds until 6:45 so that mommy and daddy can read and hear from God in the morning, and consider how I'm going to...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
I'm not really into scary stuff. We don't do scary halloween costumes for the kids, don't typically go to haunted houses or decorate our home with scary styrofoam tombstones....but this year we ended up in a real cemetary on Halloween!It was a beautiful...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than be...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
On Career Day in Kindergarten, Sarah Jane told us she wanted to be an artist. 6 years later, she still loves drawing superheroes or animals at the table with her dad, and I'm starting to think that she really might end up being an artist. A few months ...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
I've found a new cupcake recipe that has quickly become my \"go-to\" healthy dessert recipe...Weight Watchers Pumpkin Cupcakes. I've tested them on my family, hungry college boys, and my fabulous-cooking sister-in-law, Chessa....and all agree th...
Posted by Moments of Clarity by Gretchen 2 years ago.
How often do we have to wait for anything anymore Food - just as long as it take us to drive thruRides - we have our own cars, so we don't wait for anyonePrescriptions - we call them in and they're ready when we get to the pharmacy Answers - Wiki or Go...
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