We have just published a new set of 10 ready-to-preach funeral homilies available via email or US mail. Here’s an excerpt: “Just as God’s grace strengthened our friend, God’s grace will now send you into your next chapter. The grace that saves us and strengthens us is also the grace that sends us. Our friend’s death is the end of one chapter, but it is not the end of the story. Your future is unwritten pages and eternal hope. It requires adjusting your goals and your game plan. But you do not honor our friend by putting your lives on hold, but after a brief rest, you honor her, and you honor God by living life to the fullest, by strengthening family relationships and friendship, by using your spiritual gifts and talents, by seeing grace and humor in life, even in difficult times. Our friend’s death is the end of one chapter, but it is not the end of the story. Your future is unwritten pages and eternal hope. It requires adjusting your goals and your game plan. But you do not honor our friend by putting your lives on hold, but after a brief rest, you honor her, and you honor God by living life to the fullest, by strengthening family relationships and friendship, by using your spiritual gifts and talents, by seeing grace and humor in life, even in difficult times.”