Taking Time To Eulogize


Why do we wait 
        Until it's too late
                To write a eulogy?
Why does it take so long
         To write a love song
              From the heart of you or me?

Let us take time to tell
        Before the midnight bell
                To someone we admire
For a kind word
        While it can be heard
             May more good works inspire.

Take the time to write
        Before the day becomes night
                A note of gratitude.
Take time to call
        From the phone it the hall
                It will change you attitude.

They may feel forgotten
        Or even kind of rotten
                At this time in their lives.
They may be alone
        Or a long way from home
           Missing their family and wives.

The deed they did they may not know
        It maybe lost in the days long ago
               If it changed you, then tell it.
You do not need a special gift
        To give this special one a lift
                But don't whisper or yell it.

It doesn't have to have meter or rhyme
        It is just that today you took time
             To tell them what they meant.
Tell them that their life did matter
        And  amid your childish patter
          You cherish the time they spent

Don't let the fact that you've been hurt
     Or that their words were ever curt
               Don't let it the good remove
Think of all of the sorrow
        If they should die tomorrow
Never having heard the truth from you

If Jesus ever wondered here below
        If He ever had to know
                What they thought of Him
Then it must be surely so
      That the people that we know
            Wonder what we think of them

So take the challenge that your given
        To make your life worth livin'
            By this gift of kindness shown
For it is not the eloquence, you see
        That creates the eulogy
          But the truth that will be known.

Pastor Van 3/15/98