Teaching giving... living in gratitude

The Gift: how my life became grounded in gratitude

Posted October 27th, 2014 by Donna Olendorf & filed under Grace Notes, Stewardship, Voice of the Clergy.

By Pete Clapp

It happened in the winter of 1965. I was 34, living in Detroit, working for the diocese of Michigan as a chaplain at Ford Hospital, had four pre-school kids (each a year apart), and lived precariously from paycheck to paycheck in a rental property a block from the hospital.

Sometime in early January I received a call from an attorney asking me to come to his office on a matter of some importance. It sounded ominous, and I was not eager to respond. In a week or two his office called again and I glumly agreed to an appointment in early February.

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