Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live. You don't have to know how to Ever since, Hempsons, we've got you left.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

and that deepening your understanding of God's word

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

On November 3, 2020, Tim and Eileen Chalids received the shocking news that their son Nick had died. A 20-year-old

student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he'd been participating in a

school activity with his fiance, his sister, and some friends when he felt unconscious and

collapsed to the ground. Neither students nor a passing doctor nor paramedics were able to activity with his fiance, his sister, and some friends, when he felt unconscious and collapsed

to the ground. Neither students nor a passing doctor nor paramedics were able to revive him.

His parents received news at their home in Toronto and immediately departed for Louisville

so they could be together as a family. And my guest today writes this, we are fitted to the

ministry of sorrow by suffering loss. Just as God calls some to proclaim the

gospel in far off lands, he calls some to bear witness to his goodness and grief. Just as he calls

some to give generously and some to act mercifully, he also calls some to grieve faithfully. Wow.

Author, Pastor Speaker Tim Chalys joins me today to talk about his book, Seasons of Sorrow, The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God.

Well, get him on in a moment.

I just want to say my producer, Angie and I were talking before the show.

And maybe you haven't lost a loved one, but there's been so much loss that has happened in these last few years.

And I don't know that we've been so good at grief. If you feel like there's losses that have sort of piled up

...