Today was my father-in-law’s funeral and yesterday was the visitation. Josh preached the sermon for the funeral and it was as close to perfect as one could get for a dad’s funeral. I wondered about him preaching at first but when I asked him about it he said he thought his dad would have wanted him too. I think there was also a little bit of wanting to make sure the job was done right and with both things I can understand.

His dad was proud of his son being a pastor. It still feels just so hard to believe that we will never again see him alive on this earth. I keep thinking he’s still around somewhere, like it just can’t be real that his voice, his body, his walk, his everything is going to be so much different. We know that things like this happen here, but it wasn’t supposed to happen for at least another 20 years. At least in our simple, finite minds it wasn’t.

I know this new normal will come again in it’s time. Everyone from church has been very kind and supportive, multiple churches actually. There were multiple members from our current church family, a select closer few who came up from Hoyleton, and also many from my in-laws church. After the funeral luncheon we went home for a while before coming back for a home cross country meet. After that we all went home again for the evening.