They Are at Peace – A Eulogy for Eddie Adkins
The Rev. Canon Frank Logue gave this sermon at All Saints’ Episcopal Church
on Tybee Island, January 4, 2020
They Are at Peace
A Eulogy for the Rev. Edna Fishburne Adkins, Deacon
Wisdom 3:1-5,9 and Romans 8:14-39
“The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God” we hear in our first reading (Wisdom 3:1 in the Apocrypha) which goes on, “In the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died, and their departure was thought to be disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction, but they are at peace.”
We gather today in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to give thanks for Edna Adkins, knowing that Eddie and Bob are at peace.
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But alongside this image of being in the hand of God, I want to add another. Deacon Eddie’s friend Cindy Klein, with whom she worked doing taxes told me, “She had this image of sitting in Jesus lap and she was looking forward to that.” That’s the image. Eddie in Jesus’ lap. Cindy added, “So I am kind of smiling. She got there.”
This is the main thing today. If you don’t break into a smile, if we don’t all laugh, we will have missed something vital to the life and spirit of Edna Fishburne Adkins. Because Eddie had the greatest smile and she knew and deeply felt the joy, the deep abiding joy, of Jesus.
She came by the love of God early in life. Baptized in an Episcopal Church in September of 1933, the month after she was born, she was a Book of Common Prayer loving Christian from her earliest days. She liked to play church as a little girl and she wrote in a spiritual autobiography when she sought ordination as a deacon that her family would remind her how she would carry the prayer book around with her even before she could read it.
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