Memorial Sample 4 (Music- Scripture) - Reverend Kris Miller

Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.

Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( )'s family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Thank you ( )

Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ). Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.
Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.
Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?
(eulogy)
( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.
I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.
You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.
You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.
And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.
You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.
(pause)
( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.
She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.
Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.
In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.
This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at ( )
If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.
Thank you for coming.

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.
Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( ) family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ).
Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.

Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.

Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?

(eulogy)

( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.

I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.

You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.

You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

(pause)

( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.

She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.

Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.

In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.

This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at Flaherty’s, just a few minutes down the road.

If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.

Thank you for coming.

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.
Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( ) family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ).
Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.

Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.

Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?

(eulogy)

( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.

I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.

You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.

You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

(pause)

( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.

She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.

Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.

In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.

This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at Flaherty’s, just a few minutes down the road.

If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.

Thank you for coming.

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.
Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( ) family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ).
Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.

Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.

Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?

(eulogy)

( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.

I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.

You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.

You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

(pause)

( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.

She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.

Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.

In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.

This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at Flaherty’s, just a few minutes down the road.

If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.

Thank you for coming. Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.
Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( ) family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ).
Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.

Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.

Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?

(eulogy)

( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.

I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.

You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.

You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

(pause)

( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.

She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.

Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.

In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.

This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at Flaherty’s, just a few minutes down the road.

If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.

Thank you for coming.
Open with song
Thank you ( ) . Music has a special way of touching our hearts.
Hello everyone. I am Rev Kris Miller and, on behalf of ( ) family, I welcome you to her Celebration of Life
I’d like to invite ( ) to share with us our opening scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Thank you Loving God, the Source and Eternal Giver of life, we have gathered together today to remember and celebrate ( ).
Please open our minds and our hearts so we may see the colors of life, all the beauty that is everywhere.
Help us to appreciate one another to the fullest. May the tender hearts within us be open, letting love flow through every fiber of our beings.

Surround each one of us in your beautiful inspiration as we remember and share memories of ( ) and honor the joyful, funny, tender, and meaningful ways in which she touched our lives.

Today we celebrate LOVE! We celebrate all the love ( ) gave and we celebrate our love for her. Today we celebrate LIFE! We celebrate her life and the many ways in which she touched ours. It has been said : To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

It would be impossible in a short space of time to fully describe the vastness of who ( ) was and how much she did in her lifetime, but her eulogy provides us with highlights of her life. Will ( ) please share it with us now?

(eulogy)

( ) certainly had a positive impact on her community and her actions rippled out to reach many people.
Just as important however is how she cared for, taught and made memories with her family.
I’d like to invite family members to come forward and share their tributes, stories, selected readings and memories.
(Family members come up, introduce themselves and share. Order can be determined in advance or free form. If people are sharing a poem, scripture or other literature they may also share why they selected it.)
Thank you everyone.
Each of you here holds different memories of ( ). Sharing your memory gives us all a peek into ( )’s relationships and how she made a difference in your lives. It allows her legacy to live on and helps fill her family’s hearts. The floor is now open for those who wish to tell a quick story, thought or memory. You may come up front or share standing by your seat.
(sharing)
Thank you everyone.

I’d like to share with you now an adaptation of a piece by Aaron Freeman

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your family and friends about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

You want your family and friends to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was ( ) remains with them in this world.

You want the physicist to tell all of them that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken hearted family and tell them that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

And as your Beloved ( ) rocks in the arms of a loving family, May the physicist let them know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.

You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

(pause)

( )’s energy will never die. All her energy, every vibration she created, every Btu of heat that flushed from her skin, every wave of every particle of her being, is still here.

She travels with you physically, but also emotionally and spiritually in your heart, soul and mind.

Our closing reading is She Is Gone by David Harkins.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
We have been remembering, with love and gratitude, a life that was important and honoring life itself. "What can I do to mark this moment ?", you may ask. You can help, support, and love those who remain. You can allow them to cry, to grieve, to laugh, and mostly to remember.

In honor of ( )'s life, you can cherish each day that you live and live life to the fullest. At times we take life for granted, but it is the greatest gift we have.

This concludes today’s Celebration of Life for ( ) . The family would like to invite you to join them for a reception at Flaherty’s, just a few minutes down the road.

If by chance you were too shy to share your memory or story publicly please tell a family member at the reception or in the coming days.

Thank you for coming.