Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Happiness

Happiness, Second Choice: Accountability

Foster and Hicks explain that accountability is the choice to assume full personal responsibility for your actions, thoughts and feelings, and the emphatic refusal to blame others or circumstances for your own unhappiness.  

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Prayer

“Am I a Terrible Person?”

There is great power in the words “God, please forgive me.”  Not only will God forgive you and me, but God will clean out the wound.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Christmas

Advent: A Family in Poverty

They were a faithful couple, doing their best to adhere to God's word, and now especially because of the little Emmanuel they had in their arms.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Book Review

“Unoffendable” Love and Offense

The final piece in a five-part review of this book. God's love, the smog of shame, and the cost of forgiveness are a good way to complete my thoughts on this book. #Unoffendable #BrantHansen

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Shame

Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17 (NRSV)

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Hurt

He had been so eager to show off that afternoon, taking his bike over to his lover’s place. He could feel his face grow hot with the shame of it, his chest begin to ache.