A Life Filled with Love
A Life Filled with Love
Funeral for a Sweet Lady
Scripture: Psalm 121:1-8
Sermon:
Welcome: Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of _______. We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss. May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.
Prayer:
O God, you are ever more ready to hear than we are to pray. You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking. Give to us now your grace, that as we shrink before the mystery of death, we may see the light of eternity. Speak to us once more your solemn message of life and of death. Help us to live as those who are prepared to die. And when our days here are accomplished, enable us to die as those who go forth to live, so that living or dying, our life may be in you, and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 121:1-8
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
What a sweet sweet lady is _______.
1. You could tell that _______ loved life and God gave her a full life.
• She was able to garden which she loved. Travel all 50 states and 7 foreign countries.
• Member of the Eastern Star. Lived to be a hundred years old.
• She so enjoyed the sun room at her facility, often could find her there enjoying the sun, watching the birds, ducks on the lake.
2. God gave _______ Life.
• God gave _______ a life that she loved, she was a very independent person and she was straightforward with you. She was also a very friendly type person.
• God gave _______ life which she adored and cherished.
3. God gave _______ guidance; the Lord was her shepherd.
• The psalmist says, “The Lord is my shepherd.” God was _______'s shepherd; he gave her direction. He gave her wisdom, uniqueness, he gave her life. She looked unto the hill from whence cometh her help.
• From reading the obituary, I find that _______ was always involved in church. Certainly, the Lord was her shepherd. And her keeper.
• No doubt God was the one who restored her soul when doubt may have slipped in. God brought her light in darkened days; it is God who never slumbers nor sleeps. His eye is always on His sparrows.
• No doubt God directed her life in a pathway of right type living.
4. God gave _______ contentment.
• The text shares with us, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” _______ seemed very at ease with all circumstances; often at visits I would say how you doing _______? I am fine.
• The psalmist said, “He makes me lay down in green pastures.” _______ had basically all she really needed or wanted; she was content.
• I am sure _______ had many disruptions and uncomfortable times in her life, but she seemed able to handle all those times like the psalmist says, “He leadeth me beside the still waters.” She believed God calms the chaos.
5. God gave _______ long life here, but God also gave _______ an eternal life as well.
• _______ might say I have forgotten many things over the years, but I would say God has never f... keep reading with free account
A Life Filled with Love
Funeral for a Sweet Lady
Scripture: Psalm 121:1-8
Sermon:
Welcome: Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of _______. We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss. May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.
Prayer:
O God, you are ever more ready to hear than we are to pray. You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking. Give to us now your grace, that as we shrink before the mystery of death, we may see the light of eternity. Speak to us once more your solemn message of life and of death. Help us to live as those who are prepared to die. And when our days here are accomplished, enable us to die as those who go forth to live, so that living or dying, our life may be in you, and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 121:1-8
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
What a sweet sweet lady is _______.
1. You could tell that _______ loved life and God gave her a full life.
• She was able to garden which she loved. Travel all 50 states and 7 foreign countries.
• Member of the Eastern Star. Lived to be a hundred years old.
• She so enjoyed the sun room at her facility, often could find her there enjoying the sun, watching the birds, ducks on the lake.
2. God gave _______ Life.
• God gave _______ a life that she loved, she was a very independent person and she was straightforward with you. She was also a very friendly type person.
• God gave _______ life which she adored and cherished.
3. God gave _______ guidance; the Lord was her shepherd.
• The psalmist says, “The Lord is my shepherd.” God was _______'s shepherd; he gave her direction. He gave her wisdom, uniqueness, he gave her life. She looked unto the hill from whence cometh her help.
• From reading the obituary, I find that _______ was always involved in church. Certainly, the Lord was her shepherd. And her keeper.
• No doubt God was the one who restored her soul when doubt may have slipped in. God brought her light in darkened days; it is God who never slumbers nor sleeps. His eye is always on His sparrows.
• No doubt God directed her life in a pathway of right type living.
4. God gave _______ contentment.
• The text shares with us, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” _______ seemed very at ease with all circumstances; often at visits I would say how you doing _______? I am fine.
• The psalmist said, “He makes me lay down in green pastures.” _______ had basically all she really needed or wanted; she was content.
• I am sure _______ had many disruptions and uncomfortable times in her life, but she seemed able to handle all those times like the psalmist says, “He leadeth me beside the still waters.” She believed God calms the chaos.
5. God gave _______ long life here, but God also gave _______ an eternal life as well.
• _______ might say I have forgotten many things over the years, but I would say God has never forgotten me.
• God has never forgotten my name; it is written in the lamb’s book of life.
• It is written in the book, “My help cometh from the Lord.” “The Lord is my Keeper.” There is a Lamb at the center of the throne that will be my shepherd; he will lead me to springs of living water.
• It is written, “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” “He shall preserve my soul.”
• It is written, “I have seen the Lilly of the Valley, the bright and morning Star, the one who is the fairest of ten thousand to my soul. And I now have eternal joy.”
• _______ might say to us today, “Family, God gave me a full life, God gave me life, God gave me Guidance, God gave me Contentment, and God Gave me goodness and mercy all the days of my life and now I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
• Children remember _______ might say, Psalm 121:8, “The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
Closing Prayer Benediction:
• God of us all, your love never ends. When all else fails, you still are God.
We pray to you for one another in our need, and for all, anywhere, who mourn with us this day.
To those who doubt, give light; to those who are weak, strength; to all who have sinned, mercy; to all who sorrow, your peace.
Keep true in us the love with which we hold one another. In all our ways we trust you. And to you, with your Church on earth and in heaven, we offer honor and glory, now and forever. Thank you for the example of our loved one _______ and we cherish her memories of her and her life. Amen.