When asked to speak at the funeral of a loved one or a friend, you are choked with emotion. you are not thinking straight. The funeral must go on. Where ever the service is conducted at the church or temple or at the gravesite. The gathering of family and friends with the casket or the urn in plain sight is a shock to your nervous system. You might not be able to stand up and speak while the service is conducted. But somewhere deep down out of the love for the deceased the words will flow.
If you are going to read a verse from the Bible, choose one that is close to your heart and describes your relationship with the deceased.
If you can manage to write down your thoughts and feelings you can read them and it will be the easiest way for you to be able to speak in front of a group of people.
Now you are up at the podium. You break out in a sweat. Your heart starts beating faster and faster. Everyone in the audience is straining to hear your words but you haven't uttered a sound.
Somewhere deep from inside of your body, you hear a small voice starting to speak about the person who now is no longer. Your voice gets stronger as you tell a particular story which was a special time between you and the deceased. The tears flow freely as you speak words from your heart and emotions.
You now wipe your streaming eyes and nose and walk slowly back to your seat. You suddenly feel a release. You feel you are now free to start the grieving and sometime in the future the recovery of your emotions and feelings of this precious person who is no longer among the living.
Linda E. Meckler, author copyright 2011 updated 2017
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