Opinionated – never bashful or ashamed to give you his.Here are some of the words that they shared with me the other evening:: Today, as we think of Wayne, we remember: [I had asked some of the family to choose a word or phrase that would summarize this one’s life as it related to them. Jesus “wept” because I think He remembered … He remembered the person Lazarus was … He remembered the times they had eaten and fellowshipped together in their home. I think there are three things we should learn as we come together for a service such as this one:ġ. It also says He “groaned in His spirit” … the inward depth and pain that death brings, that which we sometimes can’t express to anyone else … at least not in words. The scripture says that “Jesus wept” … the outward show of His sorrow. The way in which Jesus responded to the death of His friend Lazarus gives us a lot of insight into ways that God the Father might expect us to respond when one of our own has been called home.ġ. Let’s pick up the story in Verse 21 (read all, down through 44) In that story, we find that Jesus had been notified of the fact that Lazarus was sick, but had delayed His coming … knowing that Lazarus would already be dead when he arrived. In John 11, we find the story of Jesus, coming to the tomb of Lazarus who had died some 4 days before. In school, we used to refer to the importance of learning “The 3 R’s” – and of course we meant “Read’n, writ’n, and rithmatic…”Īs we gather here today – not to mourn the death of Wayne Thompson, but rather to celebrate his life and all it has meant to those that have loved and known him throughout his years here on the “sod” of this old earth – I want us to learn three “R’s” that will help us in dealing with not only Wayne’s death, but also in learning to live our own lives.
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