Prayer of Thanksgiving and Farewell

Dear Lord and Heavenly Father
We give thanks for the life of Beryl Josephine Tishler.
Thank you for the  qualities and experiences she breathed into the lives of Susan , Ron, Jane, Malcolm and Tracey.
And so through the generations she will continue to enrich our lives, as,  by nature and nurture , our own character and personalities have at least in part been shaped by her.
Help us to hold onto the good and forgive all else.
Father God we commend to you her spirit as one who with gentleness humbly called each of us to live life with the strength of a pure heart.
Amen

Beryl enlisted in the army  at the age of 18. Both of her brothers Jack and Bob were already in. Australia was  in its second world war  . Some actions define us , some define a nation

Music

Music was pretty important to Beryl when she went to lived at  Baxter street. Beautiful music would blast from the little garage/granny flat most days.  That was the beginning of the classic CD collection. She was a valued customer of Plaza records. Sadly this fine establishment is no longer with us. It has been replaced by a hairdressers and  beauty supply shop..... These cds were the  only truly material thing that she valued. They were all kept in artist order . Once you start classifying collections it ranks pretty high on the importance scale unless you  happen  to suffer from  OCD, which Beryl did  not.   Vivaldi four seasons , Bach, Beethoven (those big numbers  with  waltzes) were some of the favourites.....

Soothsayer

One practicing divination, including

• Fortune-teller
• Oracle

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soothsayer )


Ok , Beryl was probably not a soothsayer , but she did  have a few stock standard sayings for particular occasions and moment that were reflective of the times she lived in and the type of person she was 

• Yesterday is dead forget it, tomorrow does not exist , today is here, use it.

• If you can’t be good be careful , if  you can’t be careful remember the date.

• Blind Freddy on horse back would be glad to see it.

• I’ve had eloquent sufficiency thank you.

• Up in Annies room behind the clock

There is one that I'm stuck on. Its about Laziness . It goes something like "Laziness is not done well unless you are committed to it " Beryl was proud of her commitment to this past time. While it infuriated me at the time , I now see the wisdom of stopping to smell the daisies or the urban equivalent , Window shopping down at the Plaza.
Any clarifications?