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Afterglow by Helen Lowrie Marshall

I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun;

Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

My Journey’s Just Begun by Ellen Brenneman

Don’t think of me as gone away

My journey’s just begun

Life holds so many facets

This earth is but one

Just think of me as resting

From the sorrows and the tears

In a place of warmth and comfort

Where there are no days and years

Think of how I must be wishing

That you could know today

How nothing but your sadness

Can really go away

And think of me as living

In the hearts of those I touched

For nothing loved is ever lost

And I know I was loved so much

A Song of Living by Amelia Josephine Burr

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.

I have run and leaped with the rain,

I have taken the wind to my breast.

Don’t Be Too Sad by Anon

I’ve lived my life

I’ve tried my best

The memories I hold dear

Are experiences I have known

Of happiness and tears

The love of my family

The care of my friends

The good times I’ve shared

Right to the end

I’ve travelled life’s byways

Seen children grow up

Experienced life’s living

And drunk from love’s cup

I leave you with memories

With thoughts of you all

I’m no longer with you

But your mind will recall

The good times we shared

The laughter we had

Please cherish these memories

And don’t be too sad.

All Is Well by Henry Scott Holland

Death is nothing at all,

I have only slipped into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name,

Speak to me in the easy way which you always used

Put no difference in your tone,

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,

Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,

Just around the corner.

All is well.

Happy the Man by John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone,

He who can call today his own:

He who, secure within, can say,

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul or rain or shine

The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,

But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Our Christmas Concert and Act of Remembrance Services 2023

We are delighted to be able to invite you and your family to our Christmas Concert and Act of Remembrance Services.

This year they will be held at:

St Michael & All Angels,
Locksbottom,
BR6 8NN.

Thursday 7th December
7:30pm – 8:30pm

*NEW LOCATION*
Christchurch Eltham
Eltham, SE9 1TX

Wednesday 13th December
7:30pm – 9:00pm

The last date to confirm your attendance is Friday 1st December 2023
We look forward to seeing you and your family on the evening