What I've Learned to See
Stories from places most people pass past
Faith on
the Sidewalk
TAGS
Street Homelessness, Human Dignity, Presence, Trust-Building, Real Encounters
SYNOPSIS
This devotional is rooted in real-life outreach and the quiet moments that often go unseen.
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Drawing from her work with individuals experiencing homelessness, Donna Lomelino reflects on what it means to show up with compassion, consistency, and dignity—without trying to fix everything.
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Each day offers a grounded reminder that faith is not always loud or visible. Sometimes, it looks like staying, listening, and choosing presence in the middle of complicated situations.
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This is not a book about having answers—it’s about learning how to see.
Before You Explain it Away
TAGS
Self-awareness, Presence, , Lived experience,, emotional truth
SYNOPSIS
A collection of reflections that sit in the space most people move past.
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Before things are explained away, minimized, or made to fit—these pieces hold onto what was actually there. The feeling, the moment, the truth of it, before it changes.
The Quiet Practice Series
Books in this Series
TAGS
Devotional, Gratitude, Christmas, ThanksgivingÂ
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SYNOPSIS
A quiet collection of reflections on gratitude, presence, and learning to notice what we usually pass by.
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These pieces were shaped in real places—work, waiting rooms, conversations, and moments that didn’t seem important at first… until they were.
No More
TAGS
Devotional, Gratitude, Christmas, ThanksgivingÂ
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SYNOPSIS
No More is a quiet turning point.
It is a collection of reflections shaped by the moments where something in us finally says enough—not out loud, but clearly enough to change what comes next.
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These pieces move through patterns of overgiving, overexplaining, and staying too long, and the slow work of choosing differently. Not with force, but with clarity.
This is not about becoming harder. It is about becoming honest.
When Fear Learned Our Names
COMING THIS FALL
TAGS
Memoir of incarceration, wrongful conviction story, loss of child memoir, personal narrative, literary Nonfiction, Trauma & Resilience, Justice-involved experience, lived experience, grief and survival
SYNOPSIS
This is the story of what happened, and what stayed after.
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It begins before the moment everything broke—shaped by a childhood shared with siblings, where what was carried was not always spoken, but still understood.
After the death of her son, Donna Lomelino was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for a crime she did not commit. What followed was not just grief, but time, separation, and a system that did not know what to do with either.
When Fear Learned Our Names is not an explanation. It is a witness—to loss, to survival, and to the quiet work of continuing on without pretending any of it was simple.
Wisdom From The People The World Overlooks
Coming Fall 2026
TAGS
Street Reflections, Devotional, Human Dignity, Everyday Wisdom
SYNOPSIS
A collection of reflections shaped by people most of the world passes by.
These pieces hold the kind of wisdom that doesn’t announce itself—quiet, lived, and often overlooked.
Presence in the Margins
Coming Spring 2027
When Care Has No Walls
Coming in 2027
