Amen and amen.

I now know why families have the reception line after the service.

Give me a moment. And appreciate your patience.

The service was delayed because of me.

So, but I do, I don't know how to adequately express the profound

gratitude that our Ohana, friends and even our church ohana have for you being here with us today.

Those of you here locally and those of you joining us online virtually all over the world

actually.

We just want to say thank you and we're glad that you're

joining us. I want to begin by explaining why I, after seeking the Lord, am calling it not just a celebration of life, but a celebration

of life and of eternal life.

Kelly is alive in the Lord's presence.

Death for the Christian is a relocation.

And she is absent now from her cancer riddled body and present with the Lord.

Yet we still grieve inwardly, mourn outwardly, but we don't, as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians in chapter 4, verse 13.

We don't grieve as those without hope.

What hope? The hope of salvation found only in the person of Jesus Christ as the Son of God

and God the Son, who said there's no way to the Father except through

me.

I tell you, there were mornings.

Kelly so wanted to be with Jesus, which was like, wow, thanks a lot.

She'd wake. No, this is true.

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