and war orders, saluted service members, and jasper joyfully while telling the story. that hand is still now. but it left a deep imprint on the lives of families and dear friends. soldiers and sailors. presidents and prime ministers of a generation of aspiring young people. ralph waldo emerson said that the purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be youthful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. my father made a monumental difference. he lived. he lived well. i ve heard it asked, are we still making his kind? i believe the answer to that question is up to us. to honor his legacy, i hope we do more then consign him to the history books. i hope we recommit ourselves to be in a nation where we are still making his kind. for as he said in his autobiography, his journey was an american journey. : paul was a great lion with a big heart. we will miss him terribly. i invite you to stand. the lord be with you.
while telling a story. that hand is still now. but it left a deep imprint on the lives of family and dear friends, soldiers and sailors, presidents and prime ministers and a generation of aspiring young people. ralph waldo emerson said the purpose of life is not to be happy. it s to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. my father made a monumental difference. he lived. he lived well. i ve heard it asked, are we still making his kind? i believe the answer to that question is up to us. to honor his legacy, i hope we do more than consign him to the history books. i hope we recommit ourselves to being a nation where we are still making his kind. for as he said in his auto biography, his journey was an american journey. colin powell was a great lion with a big heart. we will miss him terribly. we invite you to stand. the lord be with you. and also with you. let us pray. oh, god, his mercies cannot b
Those who grieve the lost, weary, forgotten, the vulnerable and poor and all in the margins of life. and god wants you to know, in every circumstance of life, that you are beloved, whoever you are, whatever you are, whatever you ve done. god looks at you today and he loves you. this is the god we now, who lives seriously, who traffics in life and death, and is known in every dimension of life, even in the crosscurrents of the emotions we experience today. and speaking of many people, in these last weeks, as colin powell s life was remember, there was at the beginning of most of those conversations just the slightest of pauses, sort of a
Future. his closest disciples fled in fear into hiding, but finally, strong women came to his tomb. there, god enacted a cosmos-altering explosion of divine light and life, released and searching at god s command, breaking that three-day canopy of silence. and from that tomb, jesus rose to new life, resurrection life, and all creation rises with him. in that newly-beheld radiance that is without analogy, sins
Creation gave you the last breath you drew, and who gave colin life from the first, and receives it back again. the great 20th century rabbi abraham joshua was once asked, what is the most important thing a religious person can do? s answer was given in one word: remember. that is what we do this day. it is what we do as religious people, every time i gather we hear again and again the sacred stories of encountering god, ancient and cherished. story about god as ineffable mystery, but still revealed to our fragile and mortal humanity. we remember god s saving love for the human race, and in that act of remembering together, the god of life and giver of every