by Steve Sheely | Jul 25, 2018 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog
Parents Left Behind continues to provide support and empathy. Sometimes I make a list. It’s an odd list. Perhaps you’ve made it too. I make a list of how fortunate I am: I enjoy the freedoms of America. I have access to great healthcare. I live in a beautiful and...
by Steve Sheely | Mar 11, 2017 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog
Death has no graduates. That is why faith is required. And friends. My friends are white, 50-something year-old males who like cars, college sports and YouTube videos of people sticking firecrackers up their noses (do not try this at home). Like you and your...
by Steve Sheely | Dec 20, 2015 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog
For years we would drive past that spot only to discover that our handiwork was still evident. Did anyone else wonder why the blue spruce near the National Forest sign had the top six feet cut off of it? One Christmas when I was a child, I came home from school and...
by Steve Sheely | Apr 8, 2013 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog
I learned recently that this is one of the columns read periodically by another grief and loss group in town. Like meeting with grieving parents, that I could be a resource for these amazing people is hard to believe. (May 2013) When I was a boy, my friend Mike and I...
by Steve Sheely | Dec 17, 2011 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog, Worldwide Candlelight Service
As pastor I am careful not to assume everyone feels as joyful as I do. And vice versa. The expectation that you have to be happy is not a gracious one. It’s about jingle bells and big plates full of cookies. It’s about hilariously over-the-top sweaters and houses...
by Steve Sheely | Jul 17, 2011 | Grieving Parents Support, Pastors Blog
Each drop weighs more than a full bucket. To release them brings lightness. But they return. And the process continues until the day when you notice they aren’t as heavy as they used to be. Yesterday I spent half an hour sitting in my truck. I was in the parking lot...
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