Dear Sheets family,
We have walked your journey’s with you in prayer support from afar over the many years of knowing you. Connected in many ways, through common friends, through family members who were dear friends...both of us and of this branch of the Sheets family. Being a part of the family of God we are family also! My parents, John and Eva Blann were part of your Easton Shore family and through that connection, Sally was also so, so supportive when I walked the journey of caring for them. At one time there was the possible connection with Paul and Sally of starting a Wesleyan church in Florida. While that was not in God’s plan, we remained connected ...tonight’s celebration service brought back so many memories of our connections throughout the years. And to Sherilyn...your honest reflections tonight about your relationship with your mother brought tears to my eyes as I remembered so many of those same feelings throughout my younger years of being the daughter that was “different” than what my mother had expected a daughter of hers to be. Caring for my parents at the end of their lives brought so much healing and so much release of lots of feelings I had hung on to for way too long.
You have all been so much in our prayers and especially this past year! Personally, I think the virtual service is a pretty cool way to gather....we may not have been able to participate otherwise and this gives a much broader audience of those who would hear and be encouraged by the messages of love, redemption, grace and comfort that your family shared tonight. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!! Our love and prayers continue!!
We have walked your journey’s with you in prayer support from afar over the many years of knowing you. Connected in many ways, through common friends, through family members who were dear friends...both of us and of this branch of the Sheets family. Being a part of the family of God we are family also! My parents, John and Eva Blann were part of your Easton Shore family and through that connection, Sally was also so, so supportive when I walked the journey of caring for them. At one time there was the possible connection with Paul and Sally of starting a Wesleyan church in Florida. While that was not in God’s plan, we remained connected ...tonight’s celebration service brought back so many memories of our connections throughout the years. And to Sherilyn...your honest reflections tonight about your relationship with your mother brought tears to my eyes as I remembered so many of those same feelings throughout my younger years of being the daughter that was “different” than what my mother had expected a daughter of hers to be. Caring for my parents at the end of their lives brought so much healing and so much release of lots of feelings I had hung on to for way too long.
You have all been so much in our prayers and especially this past year! Personally, I think the virtual service is a pretty cool way to gather....we may not have been able to participate otherwise and this gives a much broader audience of those who would hear and be encouraged by the messages of love, redemption, grace and comfort that your family shared tonight. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!! Our love and prayers continue!!