[Magdalen] Prayer Request

[Jon Egger]

If any of you recall, my mother died on Christmas morning 2010.  I battle
with Christmas every year.  This year is a good year...so far.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jay, do you know how long Jeff has been there? I think he was the pastor
> there when I was in Page County. We had a couple of our lectionary study
> gatherings. Would have been late 90's.
>
> On December 14, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, they have no children at all.
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
> > Prayer for Jeff and Tracy rising!
> >
> > The year that I was nine, my grandmother died of a stroke a couple of
> > weeks before Christmas, and my step-grandfather, her husband, ate his
> > shotgun a couple of weeks after Christmas.  I have never really liked
> > Christmas since then (though I could get flashes of it), and for years
> > blamed my winter Clinical Depression on that.  I have found it more
> > complicated of recent years.  Do Jeff and Tracy have young children?
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/15 10:27 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >
> >> Please, if you would, lift up a prayer for Jeff Sonafelt, the pastor of
> >> the
> >> Lutheran church I attend much of the time, and his wife Tracy. Tracy's
> >> mom,
> >> Peggy Lastor, moved up here to live near them this past summer after it
> >> was
> >> determined she was no longer safe living by herself with no family
> nearby.
> >> Over the last couple of months she had declined visibly, and she died
> this
> >> past Wednesday evening after a short spell in the hospital. Jeff looked
> >> pretty worn out this morning, and Tracy, who has lost not only her
> mother
> >> but also within the last month an aunt she was particularly close to,
> was
> >> not in church. It is hard to lose your mom at any age, but particularly
> at
> >> this time of year.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Sibyl Smirl
> > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >
>