by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO The year I turned 21, the television show Cheers aired on NBC. I was working at Public Service Indiana and several of my co-workers wanted to take me to a bar. I had only been in one bar my entire life, the Green Lantern in Danville, when I was 8 or 9 and...
by Stacey Denny | May 28, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO It is an honor to have our graduates with us today. How proud your family must be of you, and how delighted we are of your accomplishments. For the past twelve years, some days when you didn’t feel like it, you woke up, got cleaned up, got dressed, ate...
by Stacey Denny | Feb 11, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Have you ever noticed that as you age your mind returns to distant moments in your life, events that seemed unimportant at the time, but when viewed in retrospect take on significance? Perhaps it was the first time you met your spouse. When my mother was...
by Stacey Denny | Jun 4, 2019 | GraceTalk Messages
When I was a kid growing up in the Catholic church I learned all these obscure teachings that caused me, at the age of 16, to prefer the simplicity of Quakerism. For instance, as a child, I was repeatedly cautioned about the seven deadly sins, and was told if I...
by Stacey Denny | Mar 18, 2019 | GraceTalk Messages
Our granddaughter Madeline was spending the night one evening last month and she and I began talking about haircuts. She’s a very curious child, so there were lots of haircut questions. She’s decided she’s Rapunzel and never wants a haircut. She asked if I could play...
