{"id":339,"date":"2021-11-12T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:11:50","slug":"grateful-grateful-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/grateful-grateful-grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Grateful Grateful . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width: 140px;float:left;margin-right:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JackiBelile-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Jacki Belile\">It&#8217;s been a &#8220;rich&#8221; week &#8211; demanding, sad, grace-filled, BUSY, hope-filled.\u00a0 Connected and connecting.\u00a0 In this moment I am most centered on gratitude.\u00a0 Grateful in the moment for volunteers MIke and Nora Edens and Linda Stirk for getting our annual appeal mailing together, and the amazing Erin for help with design. President Ed and I hope you will receive and prayerfully respond. I&#8217;m grateful for the meticulous and meaty work of treasurer David Angel as we prepare to assess cash flow and trends for fourth quarter.\u00a0 I&#8217;m grateful for Intern Sarah and for the faithful presence of Larry as we hold heart and hearth space for our youth every week.\u00a0<br><br>\u00a0Let&#8217;s be grateful for the tech\u00a0team who informally are trying so hard to help us grow in wisdom and hardware capacity-Dave C, David A, Katie, Kate and others.\u00a0 Grateful for Council members who are meeting monthly in a time that is full and challenging for all of us individually! Grateful for trustees Daryl, Ed and Debbie as we make decisions for building care and do so as frugally as possible,The list could go\u00a0 on and on&#8230;<br><br>What are you grateful for today? Name it. It&#8217;s God&#8217;s language for the Divine presence attending in and through you to the needs of this day!<br><br>In Christ&#8217;s Peace,<br>Pastor Jacki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a &#8220;rich&#8221; week &#8211; demanding, sad, grace-filled, BUSY, hope-filled.\u00a0 Connected and connecting.\u00a0 In this moment I am most centered on gratitude.\u00a0 Grateful in the moment for volunteers MIke and Nora Edens and Linda Stirk for getting our annual appeal mailing together, and the amazing Erin for help with design. President Ed and I<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/grateful-grateful-grateful\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}