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Laura
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Surprise! Preslyterian is here!
She walked up to me when the service ended!
Shetod me she might go but didn't want to say anything in case it didn't work out -- so glad she made it.
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Mamacita
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I am so touched by the number of shipmates who were able to attend Erin's funeral and by the efforts they made to get there. God bless you all and give you safe travels home.
I think I had good timing here.
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Eutychus
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Somebody in the Café mentioned that on Simon Mayo's show on BBC Radio 2 at 3.55pm local time (ie 5 minutes before the start of the funeral) they played See you later alligator. Can anyone get to the bottom of that?
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Tom Day
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It was on Steve Wright's show.The set list for Steve Wrights show is here I was almost not surprised if it had of been on Simon Mayo's show as he is a Greenbelter and a Christian and I am sure has heard of the ship.
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Arrietty
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It was me who mentioned it - and it was actually on the Steve Wright show, which comes just before the Simon Mayo show.
It can be heard for the next 7 days on the i-player (for those in the UK, anyway) at 1 h 54 m in.
There wasn't any explanation of why it was on - it wasn't a request - I think it was just a happy or holy coincidence.
It gave me a smile along with a ![[Frown]](frown.gif) anyway!
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Online Mission and Ministry
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Eutychus
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Thanks for the link!
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Spike
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Originally posted by Tom Day:
It was on Steve Wright's show.The set list for Steve Wrights show is here I was almost not surprised if it had of been on Simon Mayo's show as he is a Greenbelter and a Christian and I am sure has heard of the ship.
It's perfectly feasible that he had a quiet word with Steve Wright and asked him to play the song at the appropriate time.
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Arrietty
Ship's borrower
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Originally posted by Spike:
It's perfectly feasible that he had a quiet word with Steve Wright and asked him to play the song at the appropriate time.
Or even that someone involved in the show is a Ship member!
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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RE: the funeral.
It was well attended by over 250 people. From the ship were myself, Amanda B Reckondwythe, JediJudy and the Daughter Unit, Janine and the FG, and the surprise of the day, Presleyterian!
It was an Anglican service, a Baptist preacher and a person from her office gave a eulogy, her stepmother, Amanda B. and I all spoke.
What I told the people was that people all over the world loved Erin, and she loved you back. Her work told us how 'no nonsense' she was, and don't we know that! ![[Smile]](smile.gif) You have seen the photo, so now you know what she looks like, at last.
Her family is just precious and is totally shocked. Her nieces and nephews were devastated about "Auntie Erin". I talked with so many friends and relatives, (as did Jedi, Janine and Amanda). It was a day I won't forget at all.
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Thank you, Motherboard. Maybe we'll call you from the DC Wake tonight.
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Amazing Grace
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Thanks for the report, MoBo. So glad all y'all were able to be there.
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Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by Moo:
Campbellite and I will have a mini-meet in Roanoke today to remember Erin.
We plan to meet at eleven.
Moo
Moo brought the BCP.
I brought the Green and Blacks Maya Gold.
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Ancient Mariner
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Way to go, MoBo. So glad you had the chance to speak on our behalf and tell family and friends how much she was loved.
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Robert Armin
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MotherBoarde - you've reduced me to tears, which I needed. Thank you for being there, and thank you for saying those words. Can't see the keys too well, so apologies fr typos.
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Simon
Editor
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Presleyterian has very kindly emailed me a PDF of the service leaflet... find it here.
She writes: It was a service attended by 200+ people in a hardware store. Really. The congregation bought the property after it left the Episcopal Church. Actually, the setting was part of what I found most touching: It was a house of worship and a purveyor of rusty farm implements.
[ 08. January 2011, 12:22: Message edited by: Simon ]
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Arrietty
Ship's borrower
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Originally posted by Simon:
Presleyterian writes:
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Actually, the setting was part of what I found most touching: It was a house of worship and a purveyor of rusty farm implements.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Wonderful!
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Online Mission and Ministry
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QuietMBR
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Originally posted by Simon:
Presleyterian has very kindly emailed me a PDF of the service leaflet...
Hmmm....will be singing two of the hymns/songs tomorrow morming and will think of Erin as I do.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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Every time I sit down at the computer to slog out a detailed description of the funeral, Somebody (read that, FG) needs some help, some information, assistance regaining consciousness, clothing and coffee, something. (MoBo and Miss Amanda got a taste of that from the FG yesterday. You'll be trying to put together a post or email, and he'll just carry on his previous [usually unrelated] conversation with you. I think 11 years of football gave him a multipartite brain.)
There'll be a Mystery Worship report, of course, in due time, but I've some things to add from my own POV. (Anyone who doesn't like to read lots of quirky detail can just skip that post. )
We figure we've had roughly 6.5 hours of sleep in the last 48, so it might need to cook a bit before I let it out onto the screen.
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TonyK
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Janine - of course we are waiting with bated breath, but take a break yourself. Sound like you need a good night's sleep!!
And thank you for being there representing us - I would so liked to have been able to attend!
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Banner Lady
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Thank you Presleyterian and Simon for putting the service sheet up. It did me a power of good reading that.
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Fabulous pics, JJ - many thanks for taking them and putting them up!! It's helpful to have faces to go with personas.
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marmot
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JJ, the card is perfect.
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Wesley J
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Thank you, guys, for representing all of us Shippies - and for being there in person, for Erin's family and friends.
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Ariel
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Thank you JJ - that's so thoughtful of you.
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Soror Magna
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jedijudy, thank you for providing the card and message - it is lovely. OliviaG
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Jigsaw
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Thank you all; so kind and thoughtful, and such respectful photos. Take care of yourselves now- you must be tired, but know how much we appreciate what you did.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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Originally posted by OliviaG:
... Would it be undignified to carry something small that indicates that each of you represents around 4000... mourners of diverse faiths from around the world? OliviaG
Undoubtedly, as the dust settles, we'll think of a couple of lovely symbolic items we could have carried. I'll be cruising through an antique shop or flea market and spot the very thing, months from now, I'm sure.
I did carry something symbolic, with meaning for me, personally, if y'all will excuse me the long post it takes to explain it to you:
Well over a year ago, my daughter the Amazon-Valkyrie bought a birthday gift for me. She squirreled it away, early shopping being her habit. Wrapped it and hid it all this time, to bring it to light again in time for my birthday, Epiphany 2011.
Flash forward to about nine months ago. I was shopping for the 2010 CO/NM meet. I bought a very nice dress, even staid (by my usual gypsy standards), classic lines, saved from being just too dressy for me by its fabric: a very deep, dark, almost black blue denim.
Never did wear it. It was rescued from daughter-in-law's fundraising sale in December by the lingering idea that I might sometime need to go somewhere looking respectable. All a dark denim-inspired garment needs to set it off is an accent of just the right vibrant shade of golden yellow, or light harvest orange-gold, the same color as the traditional blue-jean stitching. I never did find the right thing.
Again flash forward, to the end of the year.
Erin passes away.
All the help she'd given me and all her presence interwoven into the Ship's Boards... Here I was only 600 miles away. How could I possibly manage the trip for the funeral? How could I not manage it?
Horrible strain on the budget, on the covering co-workers' goodwill -- I kept hammering at the details and worked it out, but even after I was sure it was all coming together, it still seemed a fragile arrangement, subject to crumbling even up to the final moment. So much could go wrong.
Now picture this:
Funeral's eve, January 6th, coordinating final nagging loose ends so I can please-Lord-get-on-the-road, resembling a headless barnyard fowl, frazzled, talking to myself... "9-hour drive, 'Jesus take the wheel' indeed... Lord help me... pack that dress... where are my shoes... FG's shoes..."
The Valkyrie has me slow down for a moment. She hands me my birthday present. So much on my mind with Erin's passing; I'd forgotten there was that gift for me. Heck, I'd forgotten for the moment that it was my birthday. Pretty package. Open the wrapping...
Inside I see a soft orange color, just the shade I'd been hoping to find in a scarf, a pin, a handbag -- something to accessorize the dark denim dress.
It is an alligator purse.
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Gill H
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The use of 'There is a Redeemer' is poignant, seeing that Keith Green also died far too young.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Thank you, guys, for representing all of us Shippies - and for being there in person, for Erin's family and friends.
I assure you, it was our honor to do so.
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Simon
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jedijudy... thank you for the photos, and for giving us such good images of the shipmates, the Floridan sunshine, the sanctuary, the flowers, and especially the pictures of Erin. And thanks so much for the card, and what you wrote in it. We're all indebted to you. Glad you've returned home safely.
Janine... fab story about the alligator purse. And not forgetting your epic 9-hour, 600 mile drive. Thank you for putting that much road under your wheels to do Erin honor. It's greatly appreciated by everyone.
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I'm a tacky, horrible person but have to say this:
our Erin was hot.
not that it matters, of course. she was of course hot in the sense of her being a brilliant, blazing light in our world.
but she was a damn fine looking woman, too.
(I'll shut up now. Janine - love the purse story. there have been a large number of moments like that all over the world this week. it's really quite something. God is having a good time with us.)
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by comet:
I'm a tacky, horrible person but have to say this:
our Erin was hot.
not that it matters, of course. she was of course hot in the sense of her being a brilliant, blazing light in our world.
but she was a damn fine looking woman, too.
(I'll shut up now. Janine - love the purse story. there have been a large number of moments like that all over the world this week. it's really quite something. God is having a good time with us.)
I'm glad you said it because I was thinking it. She was FINE looking.
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luvanddaisies
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Originally posted by Simon:
Presleyterian has very kindly emailed me a PDF of the service leaflet... find it here.
Thank you.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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9 hours and 600 miles is a long trip, but not nearly the sacrifice it sounds like to folks in UK, Europe, other places without the long-stretched highways so common here. Glad I could go. Feel bereft and robbed, can only imagine the huge weight of mourning close friends and loved ones feel.
I also thought the choice of that Keith Green song, There is A Redeemer, was poignant, too, him also being a genius talent taken too young.
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I qm sitting at my kitchen tale, here in Australia. Church is over. I am eating a prawn sandwhich, reading all this, and crying into a kitchen towel.
Thankyou.
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TomOfTarsus
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Originally posted by Janine:
I also thought the choice of that Keith Green song, There is A Redeemer, was poignant, too, him also being a genius talent taken too young.
Awright, Janine, that did it for me... now I have to explain why I'm all dewey-eyed!
I haven't been able to comment much, but I'm glad you and the others could go. Blessings to you, and continued prayer for a wide circle of firends and family... so many lives touched.
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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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Originally posted by Simon:
Presleyterian has very kindly emailed me a PDF of the service leaflet... find it here.
She writes: It was a service attended by 200+ people in a hardware store. Really. The congregation bought the property after it left the Episcopal Church. Actually, the setting was part of what I found most touching: It was a house of worship and a purveyor of rusty farm implements.
Thank you for the service leaflet, Simon & Presleyterian. I am curious about the property - is it still multi-use? Looks like they're selling pre-fab housing units in the reception area! wow... my wonder and admiration for Erin increases.
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Kiddo Erin.
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Here's the link to the MW report on Erin's memorial service.
In the photo are (left to right) Jedijudy, Daughter Unit, Janine, Mr Janine (hiding behind his wife) and Ye Olde Motherboarde.
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Ut unum sint
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Thank you, Miss Amanda.
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WTFWED?
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dolphy
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My humble thanks to all who have written here and posted such wonderful photos....
What a wonderful tribute to a wonderful woman.
As for the song on Radio 2, I think you are correct in stating that someone knew about it....
xxxxx
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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JJ - thank you so much for your card, pics and captions and for representing us all at the funeral. It is really appreciated.
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Robert Armin
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On Friday I went to the funeral of a 97 yr old woman. I didn't know her well, I was mainly going to support her daughter. During the service my mind was full of Erin. When the reading from John 14 included the phrase: "In my Father's house there are many mansions," I began to wonder, will Erin start reorganising them? One for rational discussion, one for silly creativity, and another for venting?
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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quote:
"... God shall wipe away all tears,
There’s no death, no pain, nor fears,
And they count not time by years,
For there is no night there..."
The Lamb is the light; no "dark night of the soul", no more, there. Nothing else to complain about.
What will it be like for Erin, having no one who desperately needs Rusty Farm Implement Therapy?
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One thing I liked about the funeral was the way everyone who recited the Lord's Prayer did so from his or her own tradition, in the translation in which they learned it.
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Lyda*Rose
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Janine: quote:
What will it be like for Erin, having no one who desperately needs Rusty Farm Implement Therapy?
She might have to work on the facial tics for a bit. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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