I attend two funerals.

Two days ago I was commemorating December birthdays of three family members.  This morning I attended funerals of two members of Christ Methodist Church.  We said goodbye to Mary Louise Fratello, who would have been 95 January 11, and to  William Emmett Ward, 74.

Songs were the same at both services -- "In the Garden," and  "Hymn of Promise."

                       And he walks with me, and he talks with me,

                       and he tells me I am his own,
                       and the joy we share as we tarrry there,
                       none other has ever known.