Memorial services or life celebrations offer an opportunity to share our grief, to remember treasured times, even to calm our own fears about what lies ahead. Despite the best efforts of every religion, what follows death is still a mystery. We create beliefs to help us, but the mystery remains. We try to explain it in words, and the mystery still remains. Perhaps we might well ask: Why are we so troubled by mystery?
Welcome to you all, to this time of remembrance and thanksgiving –
and a time of sadness and tears too.
A meandering stream runs close to a rural church dear to his childhood
With clear water in springtime, turned a sullied brown by summer’s end
We come in sorrow, confronting the fact that life ends. Yet we also know that there is a power stronger than death—the transformative power of love. Love has joined us together…
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