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Hi, these are our memory cards and what they say on them is "my special memory of you".
How they're used is, at a funeral, memorial service or life celebration, they're handed
out, and people share their memories. They can write on the front and on the back.
Many people have memories that obviously you don't.
It could have been people they met through their art and garden club.
Or could have been someone who cut their hair, that attends the service and has special memories.
Could be fun things that happened, funny tributes that they'd like to add,
or just their feelings. Grief counselors have found and recommend
these cards as an effective way of grieving. By the way if children are given the cards,
they won't just write one or two, We've found that they will write 3, and 4,
and 5, because children find that writing is a really
effective form of grieving, and they like to get their thoughts out.
When you're done you can collect them all and put them in this really nice organza pouch
and on special anniversaries, and on holidays you can take them out and each person at the
table, maybe at a holiday dinner, each person at
the table can read one of the cards to pay tribute to that person who's not there with
you at the dinner but you'd like to pay tribute.
And these can be kept for generations to come and handed down.
There's really only one chance that you have to collect these memories.
So what I would encourage you to do is at the service, when people are giving eulogies,
betweeen eulogies, take a break and just announce that you've asked that people take one of
these cards and please fill it out. If they take it home they probably won't fill
it out. But if they do it right there you'll be amazed
the kind of memories that you get. So thank you for listening and
I hope that you enjoy these "my special memory of you" cards that are found at nextgenmemorials.com