by Steve Sheely | Mar 15, 2012 | Pastors Blog
Ultimately, this issue found a solution. In the summer of 2012 we embarked on a seven-week sabbatical. It was a divine experience. And I can say that even after spending 8316 miles with my family in the mini-van. I’m in a jungle. It’s nighttime. All around me beady...
by Steve Sheely | Feb 15, 2012 | Pastors Blog
As a child, if I had to choose, I would have said that I felt safer around Eddie than I did around my own grandfather. And he gave me a golf ball once. We are a family of white people. And we know that. On MLK Day we read stories to our children about civil rights. 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 | Sep 17, 2011 | Pastors Blog
The loss of parents changes everything. Through the grief there comes a transformation, unsmiling and mostly forced. It truly is a new chapter. A new life. A new existence. Two weeks ago my father lay dying at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa due to the progression of...
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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