By Pam Glicker, Laura’s Home Women’s Crisis Center Manager at The City Mission

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It all began with a voice message in March from Terry Grahl of Enchanted Makeovers. She said she was from Michigan and was on a national outreach tour of women’s shelters doing ‘makeovers’ and would like to come to Cleveland in May, would Laura’s Home be interested. 

My first thought was that she was referring to hair, makeup and manicure services for the women, which would definitely be appropriate for Mother’s Day weekend.  But as I viewed Terry’s website and then talked with her on the phone, I was wonderfully surprised as to the type of ‘beauty’ she was referring to!  The goal of Enchanted Makeovers is to recognize all women as beautiful and to especially celebrate each one’s inner beauty as God sees it!

The two day event was set up to further inspire each woman who has found herself at a point in her life where a crisis has brought her to a shelter such as Laura’s Home, and to see that situation as an opportunity, not a difficulty, and to then allow God to work through them as they continue to focus on their God-given abilities and talents.

The event was ‘all that and then some’! Everyone had a blast creating their own two-dimensional works of art that captured their own personal ‘inner beauty’ for all to see!

This quote found at the bottom of one of the Enchanted Makeovers webpage’s sums up a message that we can all take with us: “Weave in faith and God will find the thread.”