[00:03.38]Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives,
[00:08.56]even though God granted you but half a life.
[00:12.12]We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young, and yet we must learn to be grateful
[00:19.04]that you came along at all. Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without
[00:25.62]and we want you to know that life without you is very,
[00:28.93]very difficult.
[00:30.70]We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us
[00:35.83]through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.
[00:42.92]There is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory, there is no need to do so.
[00:49.52]You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint.
[00:57.00]Indeed, to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being,
[01:03.04]your wonderfully mischievous sense of humour with a laugh that bent you double.
[01:08.01]Your joy for life, transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes.
[01:15.27]Your boundless energy, which you could barely contain.
[01:20.12]But your greatest gift was your intuition and it was a gift you used wisely.
[01:25.67]This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyse what it was about you
[01:31.65]that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives...
