I roomed with David when he was on study leave in Glasgow 1975 to 1976
A kindly big brother
Sorry to have lost touch and to hear of his passing ten years ago
Rev John Faris
farisjohn@gmail.com
John
17th September 2020
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Sent by Simon & Elizabeth
WHAT IS DYING
Bishop Brent 1862 –1929
I am standing on the sea shore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts to the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand and watch her until at last she fade on the horizon. Then someone at my side says “There she has gone” Gone where? Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in the mast, hull and spars as she was when she left my side…. The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me and not in her, and just at that moment when someone by my side says “She’s gone” others take up the glad shout - “There she comes.”
Poem read at the funeral service