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Subject: Daily Inspiration by and for SCLVP Pastors

Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:05:30 -0700

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Subject: Daily Inspiration by and for SCLVP Pastors
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:05:30 -0700
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Today's inspiration is brought to you by Pastor Joan Randall of All Saints
Lutheran Church at Sunnyview.

Joan writes:

Our weekly  "Loss, Change, and Grace" group here at Sunny View spent time
this week 
       remembering and honoring friends who have died.
       Sometimes friendgrief isn't honored in the same way as grief
following the death of family members.
       But of course the loss and the sorrow can be at least as deep and
painful.   
       May we be those who stop to value friendships, our own, and those of
the people we serve.
       The following is one of the poems that was a part of our "Loss,
Change and Grace" this week.

"She died.   My friend died.
I read it in this morning's paper.
One hundred and fifty-six words.
I counted them.
I had nothing better to do.
Actually, sixty-eight word dealt 
with the details of the funeral
and the burial.
So, that means, as a result of subtracting someone
summarized Jill's life in eighty-eight words!
All some folks will ever know of my friend
are those words.
It would take me eight-eight words to describe Jill's smile
and another eight-eight
to describe her laugh
and hundreds of words
to capture her ways of friending.
Too bad you have to pay the newspaper to print obituaries by the word."

    -Harold Ivan Smith
              (from Grieving the death of a Friend)

Joan Randall
All Saints'/Sunny View