[HANASHIR:11917] Re: Help for infant's funeral

[Francine Berg <songberg...>]

Dear Scott,  I just read the tender words of your song, and wanted to know 
if I could pass this along to a woman who is in charge of a camp for 
children called  "Healing Hearts".  this camp is sponsered by Hospice of 
Central New York (Syracuse), and I am helping with the music component.  
This might be read by the conselors, or maybe to the kids during  a healing 
circle, and if I could learn the melody, I might be able to sing it.  Do you 
have the music for this piece?  Please let me know at your convenience.  
thank you very much.   Francine Berg


>From: Scott Shuster <scott_shuster (at) yahoo(dot)com>
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:11916] Re: Help for infant's funeral
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello Rabbi Schachet,
>
>I can understand your difficult position of trying to find the right
>words to say at such a time.
>
>Below is a song I wrote over the course of several years which does
>just that.  I've added verses to it as people in my life have passed
>away.  At my mother's funeral I asked the Rabbi to recite because I
>wasn't in any position to sing it myself.
>
>Please feel free to use it, or any piece of it.
>
>
>Scott Shuster
>
>
>
>
>                       "TENDER YEARS"
>
>                       Scott Shuster
>
>
>          E                           G#-
>When you have a lust for living, the cost is oh so high
>           F#-                         A                 B7
>When it's time to pay the price, when it's your turn to die
>         E                                        G#-    B      C#-
>It's so hard to say the right thing when all you can do is ask 'Why?'
>            A                          F#-            B7
>But you'll never get an answer as you look up in the sky
>
>
>         E              A           E                 A
>Take my hand, touch me here, be my friend, and be my dear
>         G#-           F#-               B        B7
>Feel my sorrow and together we'll share tears.
>         E           A             E                     A
>Lift me up, help me cope, give me strength, and give me hope
>         F#-     G#-           A     B      E      Esus  E
>Help me make it through these oh so tender years.
>
>
>You may wish it never happened, and you'll probably deny
>But you know that it's impossible to turn back the hands of time
>We can learn from this experience so that he hasn't died in vain
>As we focus on the future, and try to dull our pain
>
>(repeat chorus: "Take my hand...")
>
>She was much too young to leave us
>But it took her anyway
>'Cause it just doesn't discriminate on who or where it stays
>She'll live on forever, in my heart she will remain
>But I wish that she were next to me, alive and A.O.K.
>
>(repeat chorus: "Take my hand...")
>
>Life is oh so fragile, so for granted don't you take
>As a little girl won't have the chance to make her own mistakes.
>So cherish every moment, and teach them all you know
>And give them all the values, to live and learn and grow.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--- Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi (at) lvcm(dot)com> wrote:
> > I just got a call from a member-  His daughter, who I knew but not
> > well, had had a miscarriage at 20 weeks.  While she was in the throws
> > of the miscarriage and before it actually happened, they called my
> > and I went to the hospital and, of course, offered a misha berach.
> >
> > Yesterday the actual miscarriage occurred   I just received a call
> > that they want a funeral.
> >
> > I've never had this situation... I know that normally, there should
> > not even be a funeral and no shiva, but apparantly the young woman
> > (Jewish)  and her Christian fiance' need some closure.  The eulogy
> > was easy enough using King David's story-  but does anyone have any
> > suggestions for readings, prayers, psalms etc.  Funeral is tomorrow
> > afternoon (Monday) at 4:00 P.M. in the children's section of a local
> > mortuary.
> >
> > HELP!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Rabbi  Richard Schachet
> > Valley Outreach Synagogue
> > www.valleyoutreach.com
> >
> > "The past has a vote, not a veto"
> > Mordecai Kaplan, z'l
> >
>
>
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>
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