Sometimes the sun is dulled behind the clouds, but its warmth and strength remains constant and unchanging and it always re-emerges with a brilliance that seems renewed. So, too, is it with our souls. When we experience the passing of loved ones, we seem to lose part of our selves, dulled behind the pain of grief, but the warmth of their love remains strong and constant and as a result, our souls re-emerge with a brilliance that is God-given and renewed. Great love has the bittersweet consequence of great loss, but it also has the immeasurable greatness of innermost joy. The impact on minds, hearts and souls is wondrous. ‘Being’ does not end in death, but is carried on within all of us. (WR)

Thank you for setting up this tribute to Ian. We hope that you can use it as a place to celebrate Ian’s life, and that it provides comfort as a place to reflect and remember at any time, on any day, and for any reason.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Ian. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.