It’s pretty much impossible to go through life without having to deal with separation sadness. We encounter it in many different ways: a parent drops a child off for their first day of kindergarten; a high school graduate heads off for college; a good friend moves away; a military family faces a deployment. Separation sadness happens.

This Sunday our continuing message series in the book of Thessalonians can give us some much needed insight that can keep us from coming apart when we are apart from the ones we love.

What Paul and his co-workers did is as relevant to our lives today as it was in the first century. And it can help us when we can’t be there with people we love.