Hodgkin's Disease Victim

We have come today to celebrate the life of ____________; beloved son, grandson, brother, and friend. We have come to offer our thanks to God for giving him to us -- even for so short a time as ______ years -- and we have come to commend him now to God's eternal keeping as it has been promised to us in the holy scriptures.

After a long and quietly courageous battle with Hodgkin's Disease, of this we can be certain, that for ____________ there is now no more pain, no more fear, no sorrow. Although our knowledge of eternal matters is limited, of this much we can be certain -- that he is with God, that he is wrapped in the loving arms of God his maker.

For "whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's," say the scriptures. So, "let not your hearts be troubled,…