For Celebrations With Distinction

 

Carol Lyons

 

Civil Celebrant

 

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He is Gone

You can shed tears that he is gone,
Or you can smile because he lived,
You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that he has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see him
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 him and only that he is gone
Or you can cherish his memory and let it live on,
You can cry and close your mind be empty and turn your back,
Or you can do what he would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

Poetry & Readings for Funerals

After Glow

I’d like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.

Legacy of Love

A wife, a mother, a grandma too,
This is the legacy we have from you.
You taught us love and how to fight,
You gave us strength, you gave us might.
A stronger person would be hard to find,
And in your heart, you were always kind.
You fought for us all in one way or another,
Not just as a wife not just as a mother.
For all of us you gave your best,
Now the time has come for you to rest.
So go in peace, you've earned your sleep,
Your love in our hearts, we'll eternally keep

One at Rest - Author unknown

 

Think of me as one at rest,

For me you should not weep,

I have no pain, no troubled thoughts,

For I am just asleep.

The living thinking me that was,

Is now forever still.

And life goes on without me

As time forever will.

 

If your heart is heavy now

Because I've gone away,

Dwell not long upon it, friend,

For none of us can stay.

Those of you who liked me

I sincerely thank you all,

And those of you who loved me

I thank you most of all.

 

The answer to life's riddle

In life I never knew,

I go with hope that now I will,

And even so will you.

Oh, foolish, foolish me that was,

I who was so small,

To have wondered, even worried,

At the mystery of it all.

 

And in my fleeting lifespan

As time went rushing by,

I found some time to hesitate,

To laugh, to love, to cry.

Matters it now if time began,

If time will ever cease?

I was here, I used it all,

And now I am at peace.

The Lord's Prayer

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 and ever.
Amen.

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear

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This is just a small selection of different types of readings and poetry that can be included in the service for your loved one.

I would be honoured to work with you to ensure that the service for your loved one is exactly what you and they would have wanted it to be.