It was sombering to see Grandma's body, so irrepressibly in motion for 92 years, slowly lowered to rest for the last time. Now she lies in that place for eternity, together next to Grandpa after 27 years.
The wake and funeral were smooth and uneventful. Jack and I served as pallbearers, and also as readers during the funeral mass. The reading assigned to me was from one of the more upbeat books of the Bible. Read on, be glad, and do well!
Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
What advantage has the worker from his toil?
I have considered the task which God has appointed for men to be busied about.
He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men's ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
I recognized that there is nothing better than to be glad and to do well during life."
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