One of Jeanette Hardage’s daughters recently came across an unpublished poem in Jeanette’s handwriting tucked away inside a piece of old furniture. She had probably not intended it for publication, as it contained none of her usual word choice edits. With candor she shares how …
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Here is an ecard that marries a couple of Jeanette Hardage’s passions: greeting card verses and stained glass. In addition to pursuing stained glass art projects as a hobby, Jeanette visited many European cathedrals to view their stained glass windows, and she reviewed at least …
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In letters to friends, Jeanette Hardage thanked people for myriad gifts, but the ones that she seemed to cherish the most were gifts of hospitality, of ministry, and of self. Her poem below draws attention to the subject of gifts, and to the source of …
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jeanette Hardage worked hard on various greeting card verses. Here is one of her verses brought to life in a way she could not have imagined when she wrote it, and set to music composed by her granddaughter, …
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