Self Eulogy

May 6, 2012

One exercise from Lesson 8 of my Church of the Living Fellowship correspondence course was to write our own obituary, encapsulating everything we hope to become and achieve in the remainder of our lives.

Self Eulogy

Here lies Steven Marshall, who tried and failed and then tried again. He thought himself to be a good man. But he learned the hard and bitter lesson that thinking it is not sufficient to make it so. It is a precept that must be lived, ever mindful that we are but frail humans, subject to stumbles along life’s path. None of us is wholly good nor wholly evil. Living a righteous life requires consistent work and effort.

Steven found his spirituality late in life—but not too late. In his last years, he resolved to live each day with purpose; to lay his head down to rest each night comforted by the knowledge that in the course of the day just past, he had sought to help someone and to be of service to his world. He leaves behind a significant number of people who are grateful that he lived and who were willing to forgive him for his missteps along life’s way.

Here lies Steven Marshall, who has earned the right to be called a good and decent man.

Love, Steve