So today we gather to share our love and our stories with one another.
We come to hear the voice of the Good Shepard reflected in the voice of family and friends.
We cry together and we laugh together and we know that in both we are embraced in the arms of our loving God.
Taken from one of George Reed 's many funeral sermons that make up Funeral Seermons that Proclaim and Celebrate, Reed teaches that the passing of a loved one should not be seen as the end of a life, b.