by Stacey Denny | Apr 2, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
When I was in my late teens, I began dating a nice, young lady and was growing fond of her. I think she was feeling the same way, because one day she invited me to dinner so I could meet her family. I saw this as a positive development since most of the other girls I...
by Stacey Denny | May 5, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I’ve been thinking about my mom a lot lately, five years past her death. After she passed, my thoughts were weighed with grief, but after five years the grief has been replaced with gratitude for the gifts she gave our family, among them a sense of humor,...
by Stacey Denny | Dec 11, 2020 | GraceTalk Messages
One thing I miss during these Covid days are the pageants and plays so common this time of year, most of them involving fidgety children in bathrobes. It brings to mind my first church play when St. Mary’s Queen of Peace Catholic Church had an interim priest, fresh...
by Phil Gulley | Aug 4, 2019 | GraceTalk Messages
We gather today to honor the life of my father, Norman Gulley. He was born in 1933 in Benton, Illinois to Glenn and Mary Lois Gulley, and passed away 86 years later. My earliest memory of Dad occurred when I was four or five and he walked into a telephone pole at...
by Stacey Denny | Dec 15, 2018 | GraceTalk Messages
When I was a kid, my brother Glenn told me I was adopted, that they had awakened one morning, opened their front door, and there I was, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a banana box. I was maybe five years old when Glenn told me that, and was initially...
