A Seeker of Truth
A Memorial for a Seeker of Truth
Theme: A Seeker of Truth
Scripture: John 15:1
Sermon: FUNERAL FOR A SEEKER
Summary
_______ WAS A SEEKER. SHE STUDIED NUMEROUS RELIGIONS AND HAD DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE BIBLE. THIS FUNERAL SERVICE EXPRESSED HER PERSONALITY AND INSIGHTS.
Songs
Song #1 -- Family Enters -- Clair De Lune
Song #2 -- I Come to the Garden Alone
Scripture Reading
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalm 103.1-5
Hear my prayer, O LORD;
let my cry come to you!
2 Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress!
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call! Psalm 102.1-2
Purpose of Funerals
- Honor a loved one
- Comfort a family
- Reconnect with priorities
- To remember our loved ones
- We generally want to remember our past.
- Story-tellers of Indians, etc.
- Photo albums
- Monuments
- We also want to be remembered -- we give pictures and gifts to be remembered.
Funerals help us remember the realities:
- The Certainty of Death (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
- The Shortness of life (James 4:14)
- The Shortage of life (John 10:10)
- How much do we waste on the trivial?
- There is power in priority!
- The sovereignty of God and Reality of Eternity.
The photos and stories we keep and remember; the few words of an obituary cannot do justice to _______’s life. These things help us with our appreciation, our love, and our lives as we leave this place and move forward.
Obituary
Song
Song #3 -- Lord of All Hopefulness
Eulogy
_______ was, to say the least, an interesting mix in her personality.
- She was artistic and creative.
- She was detail-oriented.
If you look at her handwriting you see an exceptional script.
She loved the piano and expressed her emotions through it.
She worked in accounting for years -- details are important.
She was detail-oriented in the things that were of importance to her, but in the things that were not, she was not.
For instance:
- Being on time was not a high priority.
*When the family would go out to eat at a restaurant, they would have to wait for her to meticulously get ready, often causing them to eat very late.
*At family reunions they would always be the last family there. The rest held the meal until their arrival.
*She also spent enormous amounts of time making sure giblet gravy and turkey dressing were done perfectly.
*There was a concern early on that her daughter would not pass pre-school because _______ could never get her to class on time.
The Creative and the Detail battled it out in her.
The truth is, we are all made a little differently and uniquely. We know that about fingerprints and DNA and because the Bible teaches it. One of the passages she marked is Psalm 139.13-16
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my un... keep reading with free account
A Memorial for a Seeker of Truth
Theme: A Seeker of Truth
Scripture: John 15:1
Sermon: FUNERAL FOR A SEEKER
Summary
_______ WAS A SEEKER. SHE STUDIED NUMEROUS RELIGIONS AND HAD DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE BIBLE. THIS FUNERAL SERVICE EXPRESSED HER PERSONALITY AND INSIGHTS.
Songs
Song #1 -- Family Enters -- Clair De Lune
Song #2 -- I Come to the Garden Alone
Scripture Reading
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalm 103.1-5
Hear my prayer, O LORD;
let my cry come to you!
2 Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress!
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call! Psalm 102.1-2
Purpose of Funerals
- Honor a loved one
- Comfort a family
- Reconnect with priorities
- To remember our loved ones
- We generally want to remember our past.
- Story-tellers of Indians, etc.
- Photo albums
- Monuments
- We also want to be remembered -- we give pictures and gifts to be remembered.
Funerals help us remember the realities:
- The Certainty of Death (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
- The Shortness of life (James 4:14)
- The Shortage of life (John 10:10)
- How much do we waste on the trivial?
- There is power in priority!
- The sovereignty of God and Reality of Eternity.
The photos and stories we keep and remember; the few words of an obituary cannot do justice to _______’s life. These things help us with our appreciation, our love, and our lives as we leave this place and move forward.
Obituary
Song
Song #3 -- Lord of All Hopefulness
Eulogy
_______ was, to say the least, an interesting mix in her personality.
- She was artistic and creative.
- She was detail-oriented.
If you look at her handwriting you see an exceptional script.
She loved the piano and expressed her emotions through it.
She worked in accounting for years -- details are important.
She was detail-oriented in the things that were of importance to her, but in the things that were not, she was not.
For instance:
- Being on time was not a high priority.
*When the family would go out to eat at a restaurant, they would have to wait for her to meticulously get ready, often causing them to eat very late.
*At family reunions they would always be the last family there. The rest held the meal until their arrival.
*She also spent enormous amounts of time making sure giblet gravy and turkey dressing were done perfectly.
*There was a concern early on that her daughter would not pass pre-school because _______ could never get her to class on time.
The Creative and the Detail battled it out in her.
The truth is, we are all made a little differently and uniquely. We know that about fingerprints and DNA and because the Bible teaches it. One of the passages she marked is Psalm 139.13-16
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
_______ was a student of the Bible and of many religions.
Near the front of her bible she wrote this HOLY BIBLE acronym:
Herein Only Lives Your Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
It is our owner's manual.
"The Bible is not a book on religion; it is a book on life." It teaches how to live now and for eternity.
She marked many difficult passages and in some cases made very insightful observations. In fact, she left off some "normal," "common" passages that most of us would know and read.
In her studies, she had a great interest in prophecy and made numerous notes on various passages.
She filled the book of Revelation with marks and notes.
When did she write these? Was it during her final illness or some other time?
It is a noble thing to study and seek and compare religions of the world.
She had notebooks of notes on the Bible and other religions.
_______ embraced her family.
- She adored her father and granddaughters; and was extremely close to her sister.
- She shared the piano; did the jig-saw puzzles and the coloring books with the children.
- She passed on experiences to her daughters and granddaughters.
- Movies -- Sound of Music; Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
- TV -- Everybody Loves Raymond -- a distraction from her illness; ran it 24/7 at Hospice House until she was unresponsive; she spent enough time with the Hospice personnel that it became "Everybody Loves _______."
Song
Song -- Edelweiss