Good Lords day morning to you! (#1 of 2) 2014 is quickly drawing to a close. Have you heard the sound of bagpipes playing Amazing Grace more this year than others? My personal experience with funerals was broadened this year. I see many more on the near horizon in the coming weeks and months. Have you noticed that people are quieter at funerals? They (I) tend to listen better as we see the casket and sense the somberness of a life of a loved one that has passed. God is speaking at those times; are we listening?https://youtube/watch?v=Gnk1WUD00iA Yesterday, at Officer Rafael Ramos funeral, the NYPD Police Commissioner said ...He said that Officer Ramos had been studying to become a minister one day, and so he was appointing the officer the honorary chaplain of the 84th Precinct in which he served. He was also promoted posthumously to detective first grade. The eulogies and prayers ended, the stream of officers stood stock-still and erect and watched the coffin, concealed beneath the green-blue-and-white police flag, carried out on the shoulders of six officers and guided into the back of a hearse. A pair of buglers played taps from an elevated platform. Police helicopters roared overhead in missing-man formation, alerting the skies that one of the department’s 35,000 was no longer among them. Hundreds of motorcycles, lights blinking, hailing from police departments across the country, thundered down the street, followed by bagpipers and drummers beating black-draped drums. They say that New York City is The City that never sleeps. Yesterday, in that part of Queens there was silence on the Street as Officer Ramos casket was taken outside of the Church. Hear the bagpipes...are you listening for the voice of God?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:04:05 +0000
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