The Big Brunch

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The Big Brunch

Host your own Big Brunch in October to support Forest Holme Hospice

Spoil your work colleagues, family or friends with sausage and bacon rolls, or keep it simple with croissants, muffins and fresh fruit. Add in tea, coffee and juice and tuck in!

Celebrate Hospice Care Week by hosting a Big Brunch (see p30)

Light up a Life Service Programme

Welcome Song

Opening- We are here to remember those we loved who have died.

Our hearts ache, our tears flow. We feel a deep, tender wound because someone precious is no longer part of our life on earth. We grieve because of that physical absence, but we also rejoice to have known that love.

We are not alone in our grief, our tears and our memories. We reach out to one another with love, with understanding and with hope. Those we loved who have died unite us. Your pain becomes my pain. Your joy becomes my joy. Your hope is my hope. Some of us are far along in our grieving; others still experience grief so fresh and intensely painful that we feel helpless and see no hope.

Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength; some of us are angry; some filled with guilt or in deep depression; others glow with inner peace. Whatever pain we bring to this gathering, it is pain we share.

Even as we struggle to rebuild our lives we reach out to one another in love. We will share joy as well as pain. We will share faith as well as doubt. We will help one another to grow as well as grieve.

We are not alone.

Reading –I Am There by Iris Hesselden

Look for me when the tide is high And the gulls are wheeling overhead When the autumn wind sweeps the cloudy sky And one by one the leaves are shed Look for me when the trees are bare And the stars are bright in the frosty sky When the morning mist hangs on the air And shorter darker days pass by.

Prayer

I am there, where the river flows And salmon leap to a silver moon Where the insects hum and the tall grass grows And sunlight warms the afternoon I am there in the busy street I take your hand in the city square In the market place where the people meet In your quiet room - I am there I am the love you cannot see And all I ask is - look for me.

For Forest Holme and all who work in palliative care.

Let them shine as lights in the darkness.

For those who use their skills to tend the terminally ill Let them light up the lives of those for whom they care. For those who support the dying and bereaved Light up their lives and give them strength. For those who have lost loved ones and who are experiencing the darkness of grief.

Light up their lives.

In gratitude for all those whom we love and remember today.

Light up our lives and fill us with peace, love and joy.

Poem by Sarah Blackstone

Imagine if I was given one moment, just a single slice of my past. I could hold it close forever, and that moment would always last.

I'd put the moment in a safe, within my heart's abode. I could open it when I wanted, and only I would know the code.

I could choose a time of laughing, a time of happiness and fun. I could choose a time that tried me through everything I've done.

I sat and thought about what moment would always make me smile. One that would always push me to walk that extra mile.

If I'm feeling sad and low, if I'm struggling with what to do, I can go and open my little safe and watch my moment through. There are moments I can think of that would lift my spirits every time. The moments when you picked me up, when the road was hard to climb.

For me to only pick one moment to cherish, save and keep is proving really difficult, as I've gathered up a heap!

I've dug deep inside my heart, found the safe and looked inside There was room for lots of moments; in fact, hundreds if I tried.

I'm building my own little library, embedded in my heart, for all the moments spent with you before you had to part.

I can open it up whenever I like, pick a moment and watch it through, My little library acts as a promise I'll never ever forget you.

The flame of the candle in our centre symbolizes remembrance.

As we light our own candle in memory of our loved one, let us do so with gratitude that they lived and that we shared their life for a time.

Please light your own candles

Let this tiny light also represent our own rebirth and renewal as we seek meaning in life without these we loved; as and happiness; as we look to future's promise with our surviving loved ones and share our lives.

Afterglow by Helen Lowrie Marshall

I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun;

Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Thank you for virtually joining us and supporting Forest Holme. Finale Song

Quiz

We are offering our supporters the chance to win £100 by completing our Quiz and Word Search.

Special thank you to Ashley Hooper, our regular Quiz Night quizmaster, for supplying the questions.

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15. On which island might you land at Cristiano Ronaldo airport? How many thousand miles does light travel in one second? What moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows in 1978? What is the Capital of the Northern Territories in Australia? Who became Britain’s first female Black Member of Parliament

in 1987?

What type of foodstuff are Swedish Peanut and Russian Banana?

Which actor played the title role in the 2020 film ‘Dolittle’? On a standard British Roulette wheel are the even numbers red

or black?

What could you buy in varieties Farmer, Butler, London and Belfast?

Who is the only one of the Queen’s children not to have divorced?

In which pub card game is 19 impossible to score? Which two Carols have won the ‘Rear of the Year’ award?

In which British Territory could you buy a copy of ‘Penguin News’?

What does the French phrase ‘Quel Dommage’ mean? Which television comedy series was set in HWD Components factory in Manchester?

Find 15 Forest Holme related words below, which might be horizontal, vertical or diagonal or even spelt backwards.

Entry is £5.00 donation (cheques made payable to ‘Forest Holme Hospice Charity’) and please send along with your completed Quiz and Word Search answers (plus contact details) to ‘Forest Holme Hospice Competition’ by Monday 30th November. Winning entry with correct answers will be picked at random on Tuesday 1st December. Good luck!