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<b>From: </b>OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of David Marshall via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>David Marshall <davidpaulmarshall1956@gmail.com>, Wayne Marshall <waynemarshal@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Oe List ...] UPDATE - Re: Gene W. Marshall's Zoom Memorial Service on Saturday, September 20, 12 Noon Central<br>
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<h1 dir="auto" class="gmail-post-title gmail-published gmail-title-X77sOw">Last Father-Son Bible Lesson</h1>
<h3 dir="auto" class="gmail-subtitle gmail-subtitle-HEEcLo">My Reading at Dad's Memorial Service</h3>
<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Our dad, <a href="https://www.realisticliving.org/the-passing-of-gene-wesley-marshall/" originalsrc="https://www.realisticliving.org/the-passing-of-gene-wesley-marshall/" data-outlook-id="2f830c8e-ab5c-4189-a7b2-f77333308932">
Gene Wesley Marshall</a>, passed away last month, but not before writing his own obituary and memorial service. For his upcoming 9/20/25 memorial service, he asked me to read one of his favorite bible passages, Psalm 139 from the Old Testament. Dad loved the
psalms, but they were never really my cup of tea. So I reached out to him several weeks before he died to ask if he had any tips for me in reading this particular one. Below is our last father-son pedagogy session:</div>
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<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Dad,</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">I've been looking over the Psalm you would like me to read at your Memorial Service. As you may know, I am not very well versed in psalms. Could you tell me why you chose this one of all
the psalms you know and cherish? What does it say to you that you want me to make sure I get across in the reading of it? Are there parts that you would emphasize in tone or inflection? And you mentioned that I might only read part of it, not the whole thing.
If so, is there a part that you would like most to be read aloud? If this is too much of a detail for you given where you are right now, and I completely understand. But if you have any gems that would convey the power you intend for it at your service, I'd
be most grateful. Here is a copy of it. Feel free to make inline notes if you want.</p>
<h3 dir="ltr" class="gmail-header-anchor-post">Psalm 139</h3>
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<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Yahweh, you have examined me, and know me</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You know all, whether I sit down or rise up</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You have discerned my thoughts from afar.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You have traced my journey and my resting places</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>and are familiar with all my paths.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>For there is not a word on my tongue</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>but you, Yahweh, know them all.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You have kept close guard before me and behind</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>and have spread your hand over me.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Such knowledge is beyond my understanding</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>so high that I cannot reach it.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Where can I escape from your spirit [your Awe]?</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Where can I flee from your presence [your Awesomeness]?</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>If I climb to the heavens [the sky], You are there.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>If I make my bed in Sheol [Eternal oblivion] again I find You.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>If I take my flight to the frontiers of the morning,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>or dwell at the limit of the western sea,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Even there your hand will meet me,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Your right hand will hold me fast.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>If I say, “Surely darkness will steal over me,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>night will close around me.,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>darkness is no darkness for You</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>night is as luminous as day,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>to you both dark and light are one.”</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You It was who fashioned my inward parts,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You know me through and through,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>my body is no mystery to You,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>You saw my limbs unformed in the womb—</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>and in Your book they are all recorded—</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>day by day they were fashioned,</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>not one of them was late in growing.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>How deep I find Your thoughtfulness, oh my God.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>how inexhaustible Your themes!</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>Can I count them. They outnumber the grains of sand:</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><b>to finish the count, my years must equal Yours.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Love,</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">David</p>
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<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Dear David,</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">These verses convey the plain simple truth that we all have an intimate relation with the Ground of our Being.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">We are cared for in the womb. in our childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">My limbs were not late in growing. I came out with all 10 fingers and all 10 toes.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">This is a sweet way to introduce the God-Relation, the Land of Mystery relation built into our biology.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Don't try too hard to make this poetry meaningful. It is meaningful. Just let it be its meaning.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Love,</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Dad</p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Okay, I've got my marching orders, Dad. Love you good!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">If you would like to attend Gene Wesley Marshall's memorial service on Zoom next Saturday, September 20, 2025 (10-11am Pacific, 12-1pm Central, 1-2pm Eastern), please register here so my
brother Wayne can send you the link:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing"><a href="https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial" target="_blank" originalsrc="https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial" data-outlook-id="12625f7b-9fc2-447f-a0ef-f0316acaa6af">https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">Thank you,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">David Marshall</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Marshall <<a href="mailto:davidpaulmarshall1956@gmail.com" data-outlook-id="45743265-6ff5-4f80-809e-b1a47acd6abd">davidpaulmarshall1956@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_quote" style="font-size: 9.75pt;">We would like to invite you to the online memorial service of Gene Wesley Marshall, our father of 61 to 71 years and our step-mom Joyce's husband of almost 50 years, on September 20, 12 noon Central.
Please click on the link below to register, so we can see who's coming. It will last 60-90 minutes, with a little formal structure to begin followed by attendee contributions.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_quote" style="font-size: 9.75pt;"><a href="https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial" target="_blank" originalsrc="https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial" data-outlook-id="8f5bddc0-cd5c-4d58-a84a-025e4a4654cf">https://kaizen-marketing.com/gene-marshall-memorial</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_quote" style="font-size: 9.75pt;">Grace, Peace, & Love,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_quote" style="font-size: 9.75pt;">Wayne, David, Kathy, and Teresa Marshall</div>
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