Cyprus Funeral Celebrant

Cyprus Funeral Celebrant I will spend time with you to ensure that your memories, music and readings are combined to give a t As unique as the life they lived.

With six years experience, supporting over 1,400 families in the UK, I will now be working closely with bereaved families and Funeral Directors in Cyprus, creating bespoke funeral ceremonies which reflect the wishes, beliefs and cultural traditions of the life of the deceased and their families. Each ceremony is unique – as unique as the person who has died. I will spend time with you to ensure th

at your memories, music and readings are combined to give a true reflection and celebration of your loved one’s life. Whether secular, spiritual, religious, contemporary or traditional, a Civil Funeral Ceremony will be everything you want it to be. For more information or a friendly chat , please contact me.

15/09/2023

Grief is one of the biggest mountains you’ll ever have to climb.

Not least, because it’s one that you absolutely won’t want to.

And people may talk of ‘getting over it’.
But the truth is,
I don’t think we ever do.

And that’s not to say that we don’t end up on the other side of the mountain. I’m not saying that we’re stuck in one place forever.

But, rather than getting over it…

Perhaps we find a cave we can walk through which brings us out on the other side. It may be dark and dim and difficult, but we make it through into the light.

Perhaps we find a path around the mountain that leads to the other side. It may take a long time and it might be unsteady and precarious, but we make it round.

Or perhaps we just slowly edge our way past. A little up, a little through, a little round. Step by step.

No, I don’t think we get over it. It is too big, too overwhelming.
Too insurmountable.

So instead we get through it.
Round it.

Or quite possibly,

we just get by.

******

Becky Hemsley 2022
Artwork created with Dall-E

Love to those standing at the bottom of the mountain right now, wondering how you will ever get past it ❤️‍🩹

Mountain Climbing is from the book 'When I Am Gone'
https://a.co/d/iTbpJ7E

13/09/2023

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
Anne Lamott

Lyda Borelli, 1910.

01/09/2023

❤️

30/08/2023

I am truly blessed to work with families at the most difficult of times, and just to feel that we can help in some small way is what makes being a celebrant one of the most fulfilling and satisfying jobs I can think of.. so Ruth, thank you so much for these beautiful words, they mean a great deal and are truly appreciated x x

Just a message to say what an incredible lady you are. You helped us to celebrate Emma's life perfectly. you captured her in every way. You made a very sad and upsetting time far easier and we thank you for it. You are amazing xx

28/07/2023

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, 1953.

Timothy Barr - Raking Light, 2019.

15/07/2023

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Jeanette Winterson

Vilhelm Hammershøi - Rest, 1905.

05/07/2023

"The day you died, the musical score of my life was forever changed. A sad undertone was added. Some days it is very loud. Some days it is very soft. But it is always there. I am thankful for the days when I can hear the joyful melody of life. I will listen to your song forever in my heart."
---- Mardi Slagle Peaster

28/06/2023

Grief is an unravelling of everything we are and everything we know. It isn't that we can't heal. It is only that when we begin to put ourselves back together again the pieces don't quite fit. We are forever changed and if you look for us as we were you will not find us.

21/06/2023

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are.
It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us.
It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart ..

~ Frederick Buechner ~

Artist Credit : Amanda Cass

19/06/2023

THE LOSS OF A FATHER

Is the anchor pulled from the seabed
the steering wheel unhinged
the mast split by lightning
and the bow broken by storm.
The ship that you sailed
until now
feels unsafe
no longer weather-proof
and without direction
or brave heart
to speed its way.
Perhaps you did not even know
that he was your compass
that you gazed upon his lead
like a North-star in the night.
He gave you all of this
you see
without notice or congratulation
diligently
consistently
continuously guiding
always showing the way
in the way he knew how.
And whilst you are cast adrift
I know this to be true
you will anchor yourself once more my friend
when you realise
that his voice still speaks
still guides
still brings brave heart your way
in the roughest of storms .
And the answers you seek
he already planted deep
within your heart
for he knew one day
you would need to sail alone.
So he buried little pieces of himself
within your heart
your mind
your spirit
and your soul
little breadcrumbs of love
to show the way
forevermore.

(My ❤️ to all this weekend)
Author: Donna Ashworth

10/04/2023

I met the moon for coffee
It was Friday night I think
When she watched me hardly sleeping
And invited me for drinks

We found ourselves a table
In the middle of the night
And the constellations twinkled
Like a thousand fairy lights

She asked me how I’d been
As she poured coffee from a pot
For she said she’d watched me
Waking up at midnight quite a lot

I said my brain was far too full
My mind was always on
And when I woke it felt as if
I was the only one

The only one who lay awake
Whilst I sat on my bed
With thoughts that raced at lightning speed
Around my busy head

The only one who watched the clock
Tick one and two and three
Who laid awake and worried
Whilst the world was fast asleep

My thoughts were stuck in orbit
And I couldn’t pull them back
As they preferred to swim against
A sky so vast and black

The moon said simply nothing
But she opened up a book
And I saw it was a diary
So I took a closer look

And listed there were names of people
All around the world
And all the thoughts and worries
That the moon had overheard

Just then, my eyes were drawn towards
The name that was my own
And that was when the moon said
“See, you shouldn’t feel alone”

And then she pulled me close
Using the night sky as a blanket
And said “I know you sometimes feel
So lonely on this planet

But when you cannot sleep,
Get up and watch me from your room
And you’ll see so many others
Having coffee with the moon”

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This is actually one of my favourite things I've written and I thought it would go perfectly with tonight's full moon.

Date Night is from my second collection https://a.co/d/eXEdgYT

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