Today, we have a special guest with us all the way from Canada through wonderful revolutionary technology.

We have our brother Tim Chalys with us.

Many of you are familiar with Tim.

He is a pastor, a noted speaker, a prolific author of several books, and numerous articles.

He's also a pioneer in the Christian blogosphere.

Tens of thousands of people visit

chalice.com each day, which makes it one of the most widely read and recognized Christian blogs

in the world. There's some books nobody wants to write, and yet you feel like you've got this

opportunity to write it, and that was very much the case with Seasons sorrow. And the book begins in November 3rd, 2020, which was the evening that my

son very unexpectedly went to be with the Lord. He was a student at the Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary, newly engaged, doing well in life, preparing for what he thought would be a lifetime in pastoral

ministry, and then just in an instant, his heart failed, and he was gone. And so that launched us

into this season of sorrow, of deep suffering. And because I've been writing for all this time,

writing is the way I think, writing is the way I meditate. Writing is the way

I grapple with what's going on in life. And so I didn't really know what to do in the situation,

but to write. And the writing then later became this book, Seasons of Sorrow.

Tim, I love the fact that you titled the book, Seasons of Sorrow. And based on what you just said a little bit ago, too, sorrow is not one size fits all.

Grieving is not one size fits all.

We're all different in our personality.

Ray conveyed the way that he handled it.

Others go through it intensely, some for a short amount of time, some for a long amount of time.

So it's important for us to remember that. But time, some for a long amount of time. So it's important

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