Tag: grief
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Old Pine
I was honored this past week to officiate the funeral of my grandfather, William Obed Gillum, or as I knew him, Grampy. It was a joy-filled message celebrating his humor, his kindness, and his constancy. And over everything else, it was a privilege to point all present toward how Jesus was visible through his life.…
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This road was bigger
I never thought it would change. Coming back from roads that I’ve traveled many times before, through Aledo and Fort Worth where I grew up to Arkansas where my dad’s family is from, I felt a strange sense of weight in my heart. In the space of life that I now live in with kids…
And yet, and yet... 