Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Christmas, Thanksgiving

“Happy Holidays”

Tomorrow many of us will be sitting at a table laden with traditional Thanksgiving foods and offering up ways we are grateful. Perhaps it is only one thing we can be thankful for, perhaps many. But, some of us will not have a place to go, or a table spread for us.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Mourn

You're not gone you're still here With me all the time You're still here When I close my eyes I still see you I still feel you Dianne Warren, Still Here

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Distress

She ducked her head down. He did not need her crying, he needed her hope, her can-do, he needed the mamá who had cheered at all his home games, who had thrown him a giant party when he graduated, who made over every new job.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Zechariah, A Big Question

Since the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon, the Jews in exile had been observing a series of fasts in memory of all that had happened to them.

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Child of Wonder

Child of sorrow, child of rain, There is no tomorrow, no more pain. Turn your silvered sail toward the light. Child of morning, child of night. Child of Wonder - Eric Whitacre