Memorial / Funeral Service Outline And Notes (Page 3 of 5) in pdf

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She’s Gone

Sermon

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“Wouldn’t it have been nice if _________________ could have heard all this

praise”. Perhaps, but I think he didn’t need to hear it. This will be the third Memorial

Service for ____________; and he had no need for any of them, but we do. He didn’t

need to hear these words of praise and love, but we need to speak them. Our memory of

him will be his Memorial.

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A memory is a thought to hold onto; but the Truth is a thought that embraces you and all

others. Know this "truth of Life" and be uplifted: Life is infinite. There is but One Life -

God's Life, my life, your life, Jay's life: it is all one infinite life. That Life never ends. It is

what we are and what we shall always be. And there is One Love, here and now as

before, for all that recognize that One Perfect Life within and through us, as each of us

now.

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Dr. Barclay Johnson throwing open the gates of Hell & Heaven.

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It is by Love that we accept the unacceptable. It is by loving that we overcome fear. It is

by loving that we rejoice through our tears.

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“I think I know why times of death, transition or transformation if you wish, are difficult

for me: it is because I don’t’ wish to experience them. I don't wish to transcend, or even to

be transformed. I don’t wish to become a dragonfly or a butterfly. I think I may prefer to

remain an inch-worm! Like a caterpillar, give me an inch and I’ll take a yard, but don’t ask

me to take a flying leap! I prefer to take one step at a time, and live fully one day at a

time. I would follow the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson – find the journey’s end in each

step of the way.

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We have but one moment in which to achieve a full measure of life; and I regret losing

one moment to regret, one step to fear, even one inch along the eternal pathway. We

shared so much of that which can be measured; but we share still that which is beyond

measure. So, at the death of a friend, a loved one: I would remember that I did not die,

nor has my love, nor all that we share. I ask you to perceive the unfolding of your life,

and embrace the people who face death. Let’s remember that even though death

involves an immeasurably large leap of faith, it too is but one more step along the way.

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And so, here we are again; sadder, but wiser? I don’t know about you, but I’m just

sadder – no wiser for having confronted death time and again. It seems to me that death

is the lasting mystery of Life. We come up with a variety of theories and beliefs that

make up our religious experience; but I can’t say that I know what the experience of

death is or is to be for you and me. I don’t know what to say of ____________, now that

she has experienced death; so I’ll have to confine my statements to what I know of her

experience of Life.

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Just what has happened here? How could he be gone, and where did he go? The

answer to these questions is determined by your belief about God. If you believe there is

a God up in heaven, then he has finally answered the call to go onward and upward. If

you believe that

“in my Father’s house are many

mansions” then you know that he has

gone to prepare a place for you. If you believe that

“the kingdom of god is within

you”,

and that you are within God, then he didn’t go anywhere. He is with us now, even as God

is with us, around us, through us, as us now.

“Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe

in God, believe also in

me”. (Jn.14:1)

“I and my Father are

one”. (Jn.10:30) These are

the words of Jesus, and no truer words were ever spoken. And if you believe in an infinite

God, and a universal and eternal Life, then you must believe that the spirit and life you

knew as __________ is alive and well, for that is what we believe about God. I believe

that there is only one Life, an infinite Life, the Life of God; and I believe we are all living

that One Life. I can no more believe in the death of ____________ than I can imagine the

end of Life, the death of God. Those who loved him, which is to say that they perceived

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