Death is a solemn visitor, and it fills our hearts with sadness.  Although we know he is a messenger from God to summon our loved ones from the troubled cares of this world to a life of peace and rest.  And he will soon come to us with all that is promised in the Great Light of Truth yet he is unwelcome.
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Solemn because irrevocable is the reality of the lesson taught by the Scythe of Time, which cuts the brittle thread of life and launches us into eternity.  We are sad because one so near and dear to us by fraternal ties is gone.
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It is the breaking of these ties, the loss of companionship and the sudden ending of all association with our departed brother & sister that plunges us into woe and regret.
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