Chaplain's Corner
Dear Fellow Members 44th Engineer Battalion Association;
Greetings!
Hopefully this message finds you all in the best of health doing these summer days. We are in the beginning of summer and the sun is hot and the bugs are biting. The weather here in Alabama is hot one day and the next day it’s raining. Hope everyone has taken of your shots because Covid is still around.
The sun shines bright, the skies are blue; each moment feels so fresh, so new. A gentle breeze through trees does play, Bringing joy to every day. Laughter echoes, fields in bloom, Chasing away the smallest gloom. Summer days, a gift so sweet, A precious time that can't be beat.
Mary Mapes Dodge's "Song of Summer" reminds us of the beauty and abundance all around us. It shows how everything in nature, from the treetops to the ground, reflects God's blessings. The poem encourages us to work with purpose and joy, knowing that effort leads to thriving. As summer comes, it fills the world with hope, harmony, and a sense of renewal. (Summer Days; Poet: Catherine Pulsifer)
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool..” Isa. 1:18.
Psalm 32:4
“For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah”
Bishop DR. Johnny L. Hicks
Chaplain
44th Engineer Battalion Association
Obituaries
We did not have any members reported to us but Colonel Jobe's spouse Doris passed away this past April. Lt. Col Kenneth Jobe was Battalion Commander of the 44th around 1978. We the brothers and sisters of the 44th offer him and his family our deepest sympathies.