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A Time for Everything

May 18, 2009

Today is a time to celebrate and a time to mourn.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a [...]

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Psalm 116:15

May 13, 2009

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psalm 116:15

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Losing Dad

May 12, 2009

My father is dying.
Those are words I did not expect to be saying and thinking and feeling at this point in my life. I am 55 and my father is 76 and in otherwise good health. Last week he had a stroke that has robbed him of his mind and the ability to communicate verbally. [...]

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We Laid Steve to Rest

October 6, 2005

Today, at 10 AM, we met as a small band of family and friends, to lay the ashes of Steve Meyer to rest. It was a beautiful, cool, end-of-summer day. His remains are buried between two Maple trees in a quiet corner of Concordia Cemetery in River Forest, Illinois. I think Steve would like this [...]

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Sunday Worship Prep

October 1, 2005

Today, I am working on our worship service for the Upper Room service tomorrow at Calvary Memorial Church. It is a Communion Sunday, and the first one since Pastor Ray Pritchard has left. It will be weird leading in the midst of all of the pain and hurt I am feeling over the loss of [...]

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The Death of Steve

September 28, 2005

My friend Steve Meyer, died on September 14, 2005.
His wife Robin, came home from work and found him in their basement. He had taken his own life.
I was called shortly thereafter, and immediately went to their home. It was an emotionally brutal evening and night. The police were there doing an “investigation.” Later the Medical [...]

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