Soo many of us here knew Jack and Gracie and spent time with them enjoying their company and always great conversations on many topics..I always loved hearing about the books Gracies was reading...So its about thse memories that they have given us that I post this today. This is for US.....
This was sent to me by a nameless person when my father passed away. I keep this close and read it often and i share it when a friends has a loved one pass away. Read this and keep it in mind, as i know this is how Jack would want it.
Oh and please, print this out, keep it close to you and refer to it from time too time and feel free to share it with others when the need arises.....
God Bless You Jack...
Death is nothing at all
Canon Henry Scott-Hamilton
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
'The King of Terrors', a sermon on death delivered in St Paul's Cathedral on Whitsunday 1910, while the
body of King Edward VII was lying in state at Westminster:
published in Facts of the Faith, 1919
