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Welcome & Gathering
Jesus said, I am the resurrection and I am life.
Those who believe in me, even though they die, yet shall they live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of Ellen Lackey.
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.
Pray (Ruth Ann gets in place)
Special Music - Ruth Ann
In the Garden
Old Testament Scripture
Pastoral Prayer
O God, who gave us birth,
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.
Add prayer for family:
Bill
Will you join me in the Lord’s prayer as you are able....
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN,
HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
THY KINGDOM COME.
THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD,
AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES,
AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US,
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION,
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM,
AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY,
FOR EVER
AMEN
Special Music
How Great Thou Art
New Testament Scripture
This is the word of God, for you and me, the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Let’s pray.
Message of Hope
It has been a joy to get to know Ellen and about her life.
She has lived in Conroe for a long time.
Active here at First Methodist Conroe in the BASIC class, supported children activities, and many other things.
Ellen loved to travel.
Her and Bill lived in England, Holland, Saudia Arabia, South Korea, Boston.
Ellen loved the theatre, playing bridge, her rocking horse collection.
She loved to shop, she was a perfectionist, a host, with lots of friends.
Happily married to Bill for almost 31 years…March
Ellen was not perfect.
We at times can crown our loved ones in moments like this.
But she was a loving sister, mom, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend to many.
Her humor, her love, her company will be missed.
It is what makes today difficult.
The funeral where death died
This is one funeral I would have wanted to be at.
Maybe not at first but this is an amazing scene.
We have here.
But dont miss it.
It is a funeral.
• grief
• anger
• sadness
• blame
• desperation
• tears
• food
This is a funeral.
However, it is a funeral that frames something very important for us.
I want you to see the participants…I think we might be able to find ourselves in the story.
Mary and Martha Grieving
First, the family is in desperate grief.
“If you had just been here...”
First Martha in verse 21
John 11:21 NIV
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Then Martha goes and fetches her sister, the teacher is here.,
32....
John 11:32 NIV
When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Have you ever been here?
Almost blaming God? Knowing that your faith instructs one thing but experiences are not aligning.
Jesus has feelings too?
One of the things I love about the gospels is it reminds us that Jesus is human....He gets hurt like we do, he mourns, he weeps, he suffers.
The first thing we see from Jesus is some indignation, some frustration with what is happening.
NIV that we read is pretty watered down “deeply moved in spirit and troubled.”
No, this word better denotes deep anger or rage.
Some read this that he is frustrated at the disbelief and the way they are missing what he is saying and the hope that they should have.
Other’s say that he is angry at death.
I think it is a bit of both, but the latter grips me this morning.
In the face of tragedy, he is angry that that this world is broken…an anger for his friends because look at the order of things here…
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