Celebrating Life

  So I can't quite believe that we've got to January 2021 already!  I'm not quite sure where 2020 has gone. Amongst the chaos of the pandemic and all the changes it brought it flew by, the last part of last year certainly went very quickly and I had the honour of conducting my first of many funeral services.  And Interestingly as sad as they were I've really enjoyed doing this work. I was discussing this with to a lovely lady called Rosie who became my mentor, a colleague I suppose, who also does weddings and funerals and we were saying how like a wedding a funeral is in the sense of holding a safe sacred space for people during something so important in their life. The difference being that at a wedding ceremony, most of it is happy but there's usually a little sadness that someone special is missing, a parent or beloved grandparent  and with a funeral it's obviously sad, but  there are still smiles and a sense of joy - perhaps relief that they'r...