Sermon No. 2

Shane A. Saylor,

Minister

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. 

~Psalm 34:18

Our mother is dead, and our souls grieve. Yet we struggle to rise above grief and

break the fetters it has placed upon us. Yet once the fetters of grief have been broken, we

find that those who seek to help us, has placed yet more fetters upon us. And yet I now

know why the caged bird sings. For at any given time, we are 7all that bird, crying for freedom we are all heard but not freed.

But our hearts are seized by our grief. As we struggle to comprehend the reality of our emotions on this cold November day, letting go of our mother. Our mother who was our friend, caregiver, teacher, guidepost. The reality is hard to recognize because it is unknown to us. We weep not because of misery, but because our beloved mother has left us to ascend to Heaven.

And as her four surviving children and three granddaughters and their fathers gather to honor not just her life, but her memory, we celebrate everything that made Faye Delores Saylor everything that she was.