[Magdalen] Prayers of Thanksgiving

[Sibyl Smirl]

Prayers of Thanksgiving seconded on an arrow!

On 2/6/16 5:49 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> ...going up today for the ordination of my longtime friend Sarai Wender to
> the vocational diaconate in the Diocese of East Tennessee.
>
> I have known Sarai since she was a wild and crazy teenager, some 32 or so
> years ago, and watched her grow up and mature. Her parents were friends of
> ours. Her mom was a longtime LPN who went back to school and got her RN in
> her 60s. Sarai, who was very much the youngest child in her family, was
> determined to be something else and worked as an administrative assistant
> for the president of one of the local manufacturing companies, until, in
> her late 20s, she figured out that she was really supposed to be a nurse
> after all. She went back to school and started over. Somewhere along the
> line, she married a delightful German guy who worked for the same company
> as my late ex and had a couple of daughters. I didn't even know she had
> embarked on this latest path until a year ago but I'm delighted. She's the
> third nurse I know who's taken this path, the first being our own Brudder
> Jon and the second a former fellow home health nurse. Perhaps nurses make
> good deacons because so many of us have already learned to serve....
>
>


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