you should know that my grandfather was thankful for his god. he once told us as the grandkids god is good but his love has a cost. we must be good to one another. his faith and love for others that drove him and led him to a life of public service. here in houston at a prayer breakfast he once reflected on his time on the deck of the submarine that rescued him after he was shot down during world war ii. to get some fresh air he went on the deck, stood the watch, looked out in the dark. he said the sky was clear, the stars were brilliant like a blizzard of fire flies in the night. a calm inner peace. halfway around the world in a war zone, a calm inner peace. god s therapy. today after 94 years, the heavy hand of time has claimed the life of my grandpa but in death as in life my grandfather has
the corinthians. and i will show you a still more excellent way. if i speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, i am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. and if i have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, i am nothing. if i give away all of my possessions and if i hand over my body so that i may boast but do not have love, i gain nothing. love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. it does not insist on its own way. it is not irritable or resentful. it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the
truth. it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. love never ends. as for prophesies, they will come to an end. as for tongues, they will cease. as for knowledge, it will come to an end. for we know only in part and we prophesy only in part. but when the complete comes the partial will come to an end. when i was a child, i spoke like a child, i thought like a child, i reasoned like a child. when i became an adult i put an end to childish ways. for now we see in a mirror dimly. then we will see face-to-face. now i know only in part, then i will know fully, even as i have been fully known. and now faith, hope and love
a reading from lamentations. the steadfast love of the lord never ceases. his mercies never come to an end. they are new every morning. great is thy faithfulness. the lord is my portion, says my soul. therefore, i will hope in him. the lord is good to those who wait for him. to the soul that seeks him. it is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the lord. for the lord will not cast off forever, but though he caused grief he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love. for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. the word of the lord. thanks be to god.
these is love. the apostle paul wrote these, but president bush modeled these words of love for so many people. that s what really struck me with the service today. shepard: i enjoy watching the family. everyone deals with grief directly. a few of us have ever dealt with seven days of grief in the way that this family will. they are a very strong bunch up front, it s also very. a lot of them. shepard: this is an emotional family. i think the country knows how close they are. they are also very emotional. you can see that, that is because of the closeness and intimacy and the relationships they have with each other. that is a powerful model for all of us as americans, and those of us who, of course, have families. i was really moved by just the president his design of the service. it was a vintage 41. it wasn t about him, it was