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It came and it went…I just kept telling myself last week as we prepared for my dad’s celebration of life. If I can just make it to Sunday. Knowing that the viewing and the celebration of life service would be hard. If I could make it through, then I can breathe.

And it came and went…

Friday: the viewing was a constant stream of people some I had not seen in many years. But to get to see people who cared for us and were there for us was just so amazing. The stories shared, the tears shed, the hugs given and yet I knew I still had to make it through the Celebration of Life.

Saturday:

I knew that if I allowed my Jedi Seminary training take over. Making it through would happen. I was going to be in a space that helped launched me. It was my home. But in all honesty that pulpit scares me still to this day. But it is a scaring of respect that I can’t suck. Laura snapped the picture above as I was checking my list and making sure I have it all in order. I know that once things start it all goes down hill and it will come and go.

As I instructed the family on what was going to happen like I have many times before. I offered up a prayer. The emotion of the moment got me and was a little choked up but it came and it went.

When it came time for the Homily…

I felt a sense of peace when I took off my hat to give the homily for my father. It was like the peace that came over me when I took my Grandfather’s moccasins when they kept blowing off his casket during his funeral. It came and it went…

Life is full of those moments that come and go.

Just remember that God is with you in those times and you will make it through.