Sunday greetings everyone!

Grandma Cybersalt learned a new word today - so I did too. The word is liminal, defined in one way by Mirriam-Webster as, "of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition." (I wonder if any of us are *not* in that state right now, given how our world is currently!)

I know I am in a liminal time in my life in regard to the loss of my childhood friend 2 months ago. As confident as I am in the genuiness of Darrell's faith in Jesus, and God's faithfulness and ability to take care of him in eternity, whenever I begin to be comforted by those facts my heart says, "Wait, I'm not ready yet."

One of the great (and hard) features of a such a season is that it provides a pause that lets what has to belong in the past to be left in the past, so that the future can come can as it must and bloom without what is no more. Rushing, or being rushed, too quickly forward from one into the other is a recipe for the emotional disaster.

So, my body may be living in a world without Darrell, but part of my heart is taking a pause before joining it in a this new present. This liminality is protecting me from being torn by a tug of war between the past and the future. And that's OK for a season.

Today's video share may make you feel sad and maybe cry. But being sad and crying is also OK, which is one of the points of the song that these people are filmed listening to.

Click here to watch the video.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim