Loud House Experience Chapter 4

Chapter 7: Funeral part 4

We meet here today to celebrate/honor/pay tribute to the life of Lincoln. To give thanks for his life and the experiences that we shared - and to bless him now that our time together is over.

All the faiths of the World speak of another life after death. We do not know what it is but we can hold on to the hope, the belief or the knowledge of peace, rest, fulfillment and of people being reunited in love.

For Lincoln, the journey is beginning, but for us, there is loss, grief and pain. Every one of us here has had our life touched - perhaps in the tiniest way, or perhaps totally transformed - by Lincoln's existence. We would not be here otherwise. His life mattered.

It is important for us to acknowledge and accept that something fundamental has changed with his going. Life will not be the same - and life should not be the same.

Members of his family will be telling us more about her life but first let us sing together (or listen to) a hymn or song that he loved.

Outline of Lincoln life and readings that he loved from Celebrant, family and friends.

The death of each of us is in the order of things; it follows life as surely as night follows day. We can take the Tree of Life as a symbol. The human race is the trunk and branches of this tree and individual men and women are the leaves, which appear one season, flourish for a summer and then die.

But while we live we are conscious of the Tree’s flowing sap and steadfast strength. We are a part too of the whole - the collective consciousness of humanity - and every one of us makes a unique contribution, be it never so small.

Thanks for reading part 4 there will have to be another part. See you in the next chapter.