Father in heaven,
We praise your Name for all who have finished this life
loving and trusting you,
for the example of their lives,
the grace you gave them,
and the peace in which they rest.

We especially praise you today for your servant
Jimmy Carter;
for all that you did through him,
especially his striving for world peace.
We thank you for his faith in You
and for the way it was demonstrated
by the life he lived.
We thank you that in his time as President of the United States
and throughout his life, his humanity, touched by your love
was more important than the offices he held
and that, for him, faith and truth were everything.

Meet us in our sadness and fill our hearts
with praise and thanksgiving,
that we may draw from his life, an integrity
and a fortitude, to work for the common good of all,
which he showed with compassion; a sense of justice;
the certainty of his understanding of truth;
and above all, with deep humility.

May Jimmy Carter, together with his wife, Rosalynn, know the
joy of eternal life, held in the heart of the Lord he served
and in whose name we pray.
Amen

[Mr G]

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