David Davis Celebration of Life

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David passed suddenly in April of 2020. The intention was always to do a celebration of life at a later date and today is that date. I didn’t know David as well as some of you, but I do know a few things about him...

He loved to laugh, sometime at his expense - like when he would dress up as a clown.

Sometimes a result of a joke and sometimes at your expense. Here is one of his jokes. I heard he told this joke a few times and left people hanging on the punch line...

Two penguins are floating down a river on a piece of ice, a mama and kid penguin. The river comes to a fork and the ice breaks in two and the mama goes one way and the baby goes the other. As they separate the mama yells “Radio!”.

That’s the joke. He would tell it at the beginning of an evening at dinner and leave everyone in suspense for the joke. They would struggle to figure it out all night and he would egg them on by saying “it might help if you sound it out.”

There punchline for the joke was that people spent all night tried to figure out the “joke”. There was no punchline, there was no meaning to the joke. Everyone would just groan at the end of the night having found out that there was nothing to figure out.

David not only loved to laugh, but he loved to sing. There are very few memories I have of him that did not include him singing. And he did not need a microphone, or an instrument to accompany him. He just had one of those voices. Just before he passed, he recorded this...

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David loved to laugh, he loved to sing, but most importantly, David loved Jesus.

I am certain that right now David is with Jesus, not because of the good that David did, but because of what Jesus did on the cross. And now I can just imagine David laughing and singing and hanging out with Jesus now.

Psalm 95:1–7 NIV

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. 3 For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,