Steve Durkac

I am a hospice chaplain and this site is where I blog on the topics of grief, death, and biblical faith.

Visit the Blog Index page to search all 400+ blog posts through ten topical categories. Articles can also be selected by doing a keyword search with the magnifying glass feature at the right side of the above menu.

 

Grief Group

Visit the Grief Support Group page to learn about our meetings at the Foley Senior Center. This is not a curriculum lecture group, but a relaxed gathering with opportunity to share as little or as much as you may deem comfortable.

 

Spiritual Support

Below are five blog posts that can help you and your family find spiritual support and help navigate traumatic circumstances, spiritual crisis, and the end-of-life journey.

• Making Peace — Few of us have actually set out to live our lives as pirates, obsessively searching for rum and treasure while giving no regard for contributing to society or being a morally centered…

• Why Bad Things Happen — When a loved one lays unconscious and dependent on a machine to breathe or a simple drive to the grocery store is interrupted by a drunk driver or a physician informs…

• Appointed Time to Die — Most of us have heard it said, “When it’s your turn to go, it’s your turn to go” or “When your number comes up, there’s nothing you can do about it” or “We all have an appointed…

• When Your World Shatters — As a chaplain at a trauma hospital just miles from the beaches of the upper Gulf Coast, I frequently deal with patients and families who have had diving accidents…

• Grief is an Ocean — Somewhere on social media I saw a quote that expressed the idea that grief is an ocean. I don’t know where I saw it, who said it or how it was originally said, but I remember it being put like…

     

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