Beth Funeral (2)

Beth Funeral

Seating of Family: Song, I Loved you Then by Woodlock

Song: Joe with piano

Welcome and Prayer

Song: CD- Tears in Heaven

Obituary

Song: Joe with piano

Message

Song: Joe with piano

Video:

Viewing: When i Get Where I’m Going

Message

Growing Up

-We were family, cousins, close friends.

-Beth, Becky and Joe Brent--- I Always thought as one.

-She was a part of most of my childhood memories.

-In 6th grade we were at the school playground in Wewoka, I had a friend from school walk up, we had him convinced that she was my girlfriend.

-She always kept life interesting- wrecking cars before she had a license. Rolling cars more like it. Boy drama. To cancer. I always kinda worried about her. Not that i thought she couldn’t handle things, but because it always seemed she got more than her share of struggles.

-she found her place teaching kids. became her passion.

-She loved family. After Gaga passed she tried hard getting us all back together. She almost got us here for Sorghum Day. (Didn’t quite have Papaw’s power as he got us back for Christmas.)

Many of you were with me when I preached my first funeral. Papaw had me prepared. Family is never easy. I’m not ready for this one.

I’m doing this different than I have ever done at a funeral.

Where I am weak, he is strong.

2 Corinthians 4:7–5:10 ESV

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you. 13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Today we say “goodbye”. One day we will say “hello.”