Entrance Hymn – 475, p.488 “Ye holy angels bright” First Reading 1 Corinthians 15 – v.35-58 Psalm 131 Gospel Reading Luke 1 v.43-56 Intercessions Offertory Hymn – 368, p.536 “Guide me o thou great redeemer” Communion Hymn – 331, p.486 “Abide with me” Eulogy In Loving Memory of Peter Anthony Shaw 5th April 1968 – 4th August 2012 Wednesday 15th August 2012 Priory Church, Worksop, S80 2BU, at 2.30pm Sherwood Forest Crematorium, New Ollerton, Newark, NG22 0DY, at 3.45pm Saturday 18th August 2012 Interment of Ashes Cemetery by St John’s Church, Carlton-in-Lindrick, S81 9EG at 3pm Afterwards everyone is invited to St John’s Church Hall Thank you for your attendance, prayers and for your kind thoughts and condolences. Dear Peter - my Love, Dearest Daddy As you know, this is the toughest, most dreadful and terrible time of our lives – to say GOODBYE forever to you during your funeral. We still feel that this is just the most awful nightmare and that we are going to wake up and everything is going to be as before and as normal - all three of us will carry on living our life as an ordinary, loving family. We continue to spend our time off together as we used to do: walking around Clumber Park, Sherwood Forest, Langold Lake, Rufford Abbey, visiting friends and relatives, going swimming, skating, cycling, playing football, singing loud together whilst driving in the car, playing at home and in the garden, watching films together, laughing and joking, doing gardening together, cooking meals together, visiting different places, going on holiday as a full, happy family, and so on… However this is not an awful dream. This is the most terrible reality - your life has stopped so suddenly and so did our lives in a way. Our world has been turned completely upside-down and inside-out by your illness and your death. Matthew and I are left here on earth absolutely devastated, full of deep suffering, fears for our future and life without you. Our bodies, minds, hearts and souls are broken into a million pieces and missing you in huge despair. All of our friends and family share this pain, this loss, this huge tragedy… Our very loving and most loved husband and Daddy… Once again (as you have already heard it lots of times before) we would love to say THANK YOU for your love that was expressed every day through your words, actions and emotions. Thank you for everything good that you have said and done for me and Matthew, for our little, perfect family. Thank you for always being there when we needed you, for being supportive, helpful, thoughtful and being a responsible husband and daddy. Thank you for being sensitive, gentle and smart in every aspect. Thank you for your charming, bright and shining personality, for your open-mind, kindness; for your funny, happy behaviours and attitude to life, fantastic sense of humour and brilliant social skills. Thank you for being with us and for us equally during good, happy times, and through difficulties, problems, worries and anxieties. Thank you Darling for all the hard work you have done at home and at your workplace, in order to earn money so that we have food, clothes and a roof over our heads. Thank you for sharing books together, sharing ideas and thoughts, views and opinions about people and life in general. Thank you for always being honest, loyal, faithful, for being a peacemaker and diplomat. Thank you for your ability of applying knowledge and multiple skills into daily life, your ability to solve nearly every problem, big and small. Thank you for being mine and Matthew’s best friend, our rock, our love… Please stay with me and Matthew as our Angel now; keep looking after us, as you have promised. There is no doubt in our minds that you are in Heaven, free from all the suffering.