Patricia Ann Moore Meadows
Christopher B. Harbin
Job 19:23-27; John 14:1-7; Romans 8:35-39
The family would like to thank all who have gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of ''Pat'' Patricia Ann Moore Meadows. Your presence bears witness to the many lives she impacted along the course of her life. You bring comfort today for one another as we grieve her passing together.
We gather today for several reasons. We come to bid farewell to a loved one who has passed from this life into the next. We gather to support Pat's family and friends in this phase of their grief at her passing. We gather to gain encouragement for ourselves as we face our own mortality, experiencing the death of one we have loved and who has loved us. We gather to join our hearts with one another and seek to better understand the imponderables of life with all its uncertainties.
The passage we read from Romans reminds us that all of creation must answer to its Creator. For that reason, there is nothing that is able to separate us from God's love expressed in Jesus Christ. We may experience loss and sorrow with Pat's departure from us, but even death cannot separate her or us from God's love and grace. By faith we claim that Pat is better off today, yet we are not. We celebrate her life, yet still we grieve her departure from us.
Grief is a strange beast. It attacks each of us differently. We have each lost someone different in Pat's passing. For some, she was mother. To others, she was grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, neighbor, coworker, or patient. We will all miss different aspects of who Pat was in accord with our individual relationships with her, along with the memories and the stories of our varied and shared experiences.
Death has ever been a category we struggle to understand and process. From time immemorial, we have fought to make sense of death even as we wrestle with making sense of life. Faith calls us to seek answers in God, but we are not ...
Christopher B. Harbin
Job 19:23-27; John 14:1-7; Romans 8:35-39
The family would like to thank all who have gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of ''Pat'' Patricia Ann Moore Meadows. Your presence bears witness to the many lives she impacted along the course of her life. You bring comfort today for one another as we grieve her passing together.
We gather today for several reasons. We come to bid farewell to a loved one who has passed from this life into the next. We gather to support Pat's family and friends in this phase of their grief at her passing. We gather to gain encouragement for ourselves as we face our own mortality, experiencing the death of one we have loved and who has loved us. We gather to join our hearts with one another and seek to better understand the imponderables of life with all its uncertainties.
The passage we read from Romans reminds us that all of creation must answer to its Creator. For that reason, there is nothing that is able to separate us from God's love expressed in Jesus Christ. We may experience loss and sorrow with Pat's departure from us, but even death cannot separate her or us from God's love and grace. By faith we claim that Pat is better off today, yet we are not. We celebrate her life, yet still we grieve her departure from us.
Grief is a strange beast. It attacks each of us differently. We have each lost someone different in Pat's passing. For some, she was mother. To others, she was grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, neighbor, coworker, or patient. We will all miss different aspects of who Pat was in accord with our individual relationships with her, along with the memories and the stories of our varied and shared experiences.
Death has ever been a category we struggle to understand and process. From time immemorial, we have fought to make sense of death even as we wrestle with making sense of life. Faith calls us to seek answers in God, but we are not ...
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