Flowers for God's Home

Forever let us remember that your
Love will not end with your breath.
Our lives will carry the best part of you
With us wherever the Lord leads us.
Even if your physical features fade from
Recollection, your tough tenderness
Shall encourage us to look up as we walk on.

Faithfully we take this solemn moment to 
Offer you into the portals of eternity.
Realizing that someday we shall cross too.

God who gave you to us knows what is best.
Our strength and help comes from the Lord, and
Daily we would surrender our lives to His holiness.
'So help us God to give all of our unknown

Hours, whether they be triumph or tragedy,
Over to you, because you alone can help us
Mature like a flower, risking and reaching out to
Express your love and truth to a forgetful world.

Alan Thomas Stokes
December 1, 1997   For Lenora Dawson (1933-1997) Shared at her Graveside Service

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