[Oe List ...] honoring David's completed life

[W. J.]

I find myself resonating with the the tune 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' which we sang in the early days of the Order to rehearse our trinitarian understanding of life. There is really nothing more profound that any of us could say to honor David's completed life.
 
So I'll just share with you the closing words of Joe Mathews from 'The Time My Father Died' . . .
 
Marshall
 
 
The third sign celebrated the fact that Papa was a participant in the total wonder of creation and that his life and death were good because creation is good. What I mean is that Papa was God's friend. My last act was to place him gladly and gratefully on behalf of all good men everywhere in the hands of the One in whose hands he already was, that Mysterious Power who rules the unknown realm of death to do with him as he well pleaseth. I ask to know no more. This I symbolized. Three times I stooped low, three times I plunged my hands deep into the loose earth beside the open pit, and three times I threw that good earth upon my Papa within his grave. And all the while I sang forth the majestic threefold formula,
 
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 
 
And some of those present there for the sake of all history and all creation said, "Amen". 
 
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