Glorious Sadness: Where Faith, Love, and Hope Triumphs over School Tragedy
Course | Registration opens 1/21/2025 8:00 AM EST
Learn about how a local elementary school intruder attack was overcome by faith, love, and hope. Any trauma can be very overwhelming, but the powerlessness that one can feel in the midst of it can be overcome. As the principal of the school and the one most severely injured in the attack, Norina brings insights into how to heal from tragedy and loss. Her path from recovery to resiliency can encourage others to walk from darkness into light, navigating through the ongoing tragedies that life throws at us.
Participants can feel more connected to the author of Glorious Sadness if they have already read her book. It can be purchased on Amazon.com.
Norina Bentzel
Norina Bentzel is a retired teacher and elementary school principal. She earned her B.S. in elementary education with a minor in science in 1981 from the Pennsylvania State University. She earned her master’s degree in education in 1998 and directly after that, her administrative certification in 1999. Bentzel retired from public education in June 2017 after a thirty-six year career in the Red Lion Area School District. She published a memoir titled Glorious Sadness in July 2024. It details the intruder machete attack that happened on February 2, 2001 in her elementary school.