My Father’s Ceremony – Burial Of His Ashes Prayer: Closure for the family

God, thank you for putting Greg on this earth. He is a Father, Brother, Son, Nephew, friend to each of us today. I quite literally wouldn’t be alive without him. You promise that you love each and every one of your creations. All of your sons and daughters God, and even if it was hard in the last few years in the midst of the pain and suffering for my father to see you and your glory, im rest assured that you’re taking care of him and his sprit in eternity. beyond this physical world. I know right now here is sitting there with you, face at ease, free of stress, free of pain, free of addiction, free of hurt or anything of this physical world that had ahold of him, and im know he is there smiling as we’re dedicating this moment this morning to him. Please let us remember my Father for the good impact that he left on each of our lives. The moments he got to appreciate the simplest of things with me like making me laugh until i couldn’t breath or playing sports with me. my time was limited with my father and he left an everlasting impact. one to this day that people who knew my dad around the Cleveland area say that they feel and see some of my dad inside of me. When i hear those reminders, it reminds me of the man that i am supposed to be. Carrying a little bit of who my dad is with me each day. Keeping my heart open and lightening things up a bit when life gets a little too serious. Please let this be special reassurance to my family and friends here today that some of my dad still lives on. Please God continue to keep my Father’s spirit in our presence. Sometimes its going to hurt and we might get reminded of him and miss him. please in those moments, let us remember his amazing smile and the amount of joy and laughter he brought to our lives. Please continue to let Nana and papa, Kendra, AE and friends experience moments that take us back for second when they remind us of him. Those moments where we come across someone in our lives, or a situation that reminds us of Greg. Please continue to put those little reminders out there for us so we can shed a little 5 second smile in the midst of our days to remember him. That quick smile when you hear someone say something in a certain way, gesture or tone and it makes you in your mind go, “hmm, that reminded me of Greg.” Please God continue to speak to each and every one of us personally, and let us experience convictions in our own hearts that tell us how we can move forward continue to honor Greg and keep a bit of him alive today. Its never easy losing someone that is a part of our tribe, but we have a duty to take the good that that person left, and remember it and let it add to our strength that each of us carries forward. thank you God for keeping me closer to my family and not letting us push apart or isolate in times that are emotionally challenging. thank you for giving us Indiana and a place of peace this weekend to let some of this set in a bit. letting it set in around good people, who care and love for each other and won’t cause more pain to each other in the midst of healing. let this weekend be refreshing to each of us. patience. calm. renewing. so we can proceed to all leave Indiana and be better than when we first came here. Putting to rest something of our past, but not forgetting what it meant to each of us. Thank you God for each of these people around me that continue to do what’s right and serve as great role models for our tribe and the people around us. that sense of Good and doing what’s right was put into each of us here and please continue to let it stay strong in the forefront of how we treat others and go about each of our works and journeys. Rest well Father. Greg. you’re in a safer place and apart of you continues to live on with us. We won’t let you down. We will continue to make you proud. Thank you God. Amen