Notes from my eulogy speech I gave at my grandfather’s funeral
“When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me,I want no rites in a gloom-filled room,Why cry for a soul set free!Miss me a little - but not for longAnd not with your head bowed low. Remember the love that we once shared, Miss me, but let me go.For this journey that we all must take And each must go alone; It's all a part of the Master's plan A step on the road to home. When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know, And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.Miss me, but let me go.“
Those who loved him lost so much at his passingbut without a doubt we all gained so much more from his living.
I am who I am because of who he was to me and my family.
Through it all, who we are is Soul . . . and when the body and the ego are gone, the Soul will live on, because the Soul is eternal. Eventually, in some incarnation, when we’ve finished our work, our Soul can merge back into the One . . . back into God . . . back into the Infinite. In the meantime, our Soul is using bodies, egos, and personalities to work through the karma of each incarnation.
I encourage you to make peace with death, to see it as the culminating event of this adventure called life. Death is not an error; it is not a failure.
“When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me,I want no rites in a gloom-filled room,Why cry for a soul set free!Miss me a little - but not for longAnd not with your head bowed low. Remember the love that we once shared, Miss me, but let me go.For this journey that we all must take And each must go alone; It's all a part of the Master's plan A step on the road to home. When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know, And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.Miss me, but let me go.“
Those who loved him lost so much at his passingbut without a doubt we all gained so much more from his living.
I am who I am because of who he was to me and my family.
Through it all, who we are is Soul . . . and when the body and the ego are gone, the Soul will live on, because the Soul is eternal. Eventually, in some incarnation, when we’ve finished our work, our Soul can merge back into the One . . . back into God . . . back into the Infinite. In the meantime, our Soul is using bodies, egos, and personalities to work through the karma of each incarnation.
I encourage you to make peace with death, to see it as the culminating event of this adventure called life. Death is not an error; it is not a failure.
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