Friday 9th January 2015 at 3.00 pm

United Reformed Church, Weybridge

In Loving Memoryof

Sarah Frances Cheeseman14th January 1966 - 26th December 2014

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

Order of Service

MUSIC Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

by Sky

WELCOME Rev’d Dana Delap

HYMNAbide with me: fast falls the eventide;

The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:When other helpers fail and comforts flee,

Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

I need thy presence every passing hour;What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?

Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.

Where is death’s sting? where, grave, thy victory?I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies;

Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

by Henry Francis Lyte

OPENING PRAYERS

POEM ‘This Day In Paradise’by Stewart Henderson

read by Carol Henderson

This day in Paradisenew feet are treading through

high halls of gold

This day in Paradisenew legs are striding overjewelled fields in which

the diamond is considered ordinary

This day in Paradisenew eyes have glimpsed the deep fire

ready to flame the stale earth pure

This day in Paradisenew blood

the rose-red juicethat gushed at Golgotha

now ripples and races down thepure veins of a recently arrived beloved

This day in Paradise

a new heart pounds in praisea new body shaped by sacrifice

This day in Paradise

the daunting dart of deathhas no point

no place, and no meaning

Andwhilst we mourn and weepthrough these human hours

this day in Paradisethe blazing embrace

between Saviour and childgoes onand onand on

‘This Day in Paradise’ copyright 1988 by Stewart Henderson

and please not to be reproduced without the author’s permission.’

READINGS‘Finally Home’

by Don Wyrtzen and L. E. Singerread by Amanda Phillips

Think of stepping on shore and finding it heaven; taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s; breathing new air and finding it celestial; feeling invigorated and finding it immortality; of passing through a tempest to a new and unknown ground; of waking up well and happy and finding it home. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – the things God has prepared for those who love him – these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.”

1 Corinthians, Chapter 2: verse 9

TRIBUTE by Paul Cheeseman

We stand to say together:

PSALM 121

I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip – he who watches over you will not slumber;

indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord watches over you – the Lord is your shade at your right hand;

the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all harm – he will watch over your life;

the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and for evermore.

TRIBUTE by Alison Jackson

FINAL WORDS from ‘The Last Battle’

by C S Lewisread by Stephen Cheeseman

TRIBUTE by Debbie Jones

READINGS from Psalms 61, 62 and 63,

read by family members

HYMN 10,000 Reasons

The sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning,It’s time to sing Your song again;

Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me,Let me be singing when the evening comes:

Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul,Worship His holy name.

Sing like never before, O my soul,I’ll worship Your holy name.

You’re rich in love, and You’re slow to anger,Your name is great, and Your heart is kind.

For all Your goodness I will keep on singing,Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find:

Bless the Lord...

And on that day when my strength is failing,The end draws near and my time has come,Still my soul will sing Your praise unending,Ten thousand years and then forevermore:

Bless the Lord...By Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman, Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

ADDRESS Rev’d Paddy Beresford

SONG ‘Be Still’

by Ann Beresford sung by Ann Beresford

PRAYERS OF THANKS, AND FOR THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Led by Yaarbari Uebari, Pastor of Wey Christian Fellowship

THE LORD’S PRAYEROur Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be Thy name;Thy Kingdom come;

Thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory,

for ever and ever.Amen.

HYMN Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,

Be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;Be thou my best thought in the day and the night,Both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,Be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord;Be thou my great Father, and I thy true son;Be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;Be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might;Be thou my soul’s shelter, be thou my strong tower:

O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise:Be thou mine inheritance now and always;

Be thou and thou only the first in my heart;O Sovereign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of heaven, thou heaven’s bright sun,O grant me its joys after victory is won;

Great heart of my own heart, whatever befall,Still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

POEM ‘She is Gone’

by David Harkinsread by Kay Pearson

You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. 

You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back or you can open your eyes and see all she’s left.

Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her or you can be full of the love you shared. 

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday. Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. 

You can remember her and only that she’s gone. Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. 

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back or you can do what she’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

COMMENDATION AND COMMITTAL

BLESSING

MUSIC Galloping Home

by Denis King, 1972

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