Johnathon Jones, Jr.
January 1, 1800 - January 1, 1863
           
    

The Blessing of Memory


     It is hard to sing of oneness when our world is not complete, when those who once brought wholeness to our life have gone, and naught but memory can fill the emptiness their passing leaves behind.
    
     But memory can tell us only what we were, in company with those we loved; it cannot help us find what each of us, alone, must now become.  Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more, echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become.
     
     We do best homage to our dead when we live our lives most fully, even in the shadow of our loss.  For each of our lives is worth the life of the whole world; in each one is the breath of the Ultimate One.  In affirming the One, we affirm the worth of each one whose life, now ended, brought us closer to the Source of life, in whose unity no one is alone and every life finds purpose.
             

    
 

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