Given At The Funeral of My Father
November 19, 1998 "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; (for) we look not at the things which we have seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). My father loved drama, and he himself played many roles in his lifetime. He was a husband, father, grandfather, businessman, friend, Bishop, churchman. And except for his role as husband (where he was allowed to be what he was), I am not sure he was ever really comfortable with the other roles he played. While he gave all that he was to each, he was always aware that he was just a man, and that is what I would like to talk about today--My father, the Man--"...the things which are not seen...." And while some of what I will say is only my observations and my experiences with him, in another way I may be the most qualified to talk ab...