Greeting!

It sure has been a long time since I have written anything, and it is late tonight so I don’t think I will write too much. I hope that all of you are doing well and have had a meaningful Lent and Easter. There are so many of you that I do hope are watching for this and reading it because I do think of you so often and wonder how you are doing. On the other hand, I know it must be hard to look, and look, and look and find that I have not written anything. I would say that I will do better in the future, but I am so busy and usually get home so tired at night that I don’t think it would be fair to promise that. I will only say that I will try to do better.

I am doing okay! I do believe that I am progressing with the grief process and finding days to be better and the see/saw not quiet as bad. My Lent and Holy Week were very busy but indeed the Lord has been present and has been good to me. The sessions that I did on Dying, Death, and Grief I think went well. Had any where from 9 to 14 people at a session and indeed get some discussion at the last couple sessions, all of which was good. Most all of those who attended did so because of a specific death of a loved one and I hope received some help. I had hoped that there would also be some there just to learn and talk a little more about the subject. But that is a part of the problem in our day and age; we just don’t want to talk about death. The material that I read in preparation said the same thing and also said, as I so strongly believe, that it is really necessary for the person who is grieving to talk. To develop their story and to be able to tell it! Oh well I believe God wanted to me to the class and I did it. I will remain open for what ever is next.

We really had a great Holy Week at church which I do believe a number of the members found to be very meaningful and helpful in their spiritual growth. Praise the Lord! I just pray for all of us that we find a new and better relationship with God because of this Easter 2008. What a gift and opportunity God has given to us, I hope that no matter our age or situation we will each take advantage of it.

Eric and Erin were here for the week-end and it was good to have them. They were able to arrive on Thursday night and stayed until this afternoon. Praise the Lord!

My chaplain service with police and fire has been relatively slow recently, praise the Lord, we have not had any really bad crashes, fires, or the likes. We continue to have alcohol and drug busts but I don’t get very involved in them. However, I was on the second line for a drug bust here not to long ago. That means I was out about 3 to 5 miles from were it went down.

Well, I said that it was going to be short so I need to keep it that way. Hopefully I will get back on again before another four weeks go by, but you can always figure that no news is good news.

God is good – all the time! All the time – God is good! Praise the Lord!

Have a positive day and God bless!

Jack Hess
Romans 8:28