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Sample "Eulogy" for Burying Our Grudges
 

"Dearly Beloved"---

We are gathered here today to lay to rest our grudges.  On this solemn occasion, we find hope and courage in this place, this moment; because we trust in the goodness in our hearts and the goodness of Creation to help us live without our grudges.  These grudges we lay to rest today have a history in our lives.

They did not just appear out of thin air.  No, they came from times

--when people hurt us, misjudged us;
--when people said they would do something for us and blew us off;
--when a friend stopped treating us as a friend.

These grudges, like a wound when left unattended, begin to fester and get worse.  In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "we become the hatred, the grudges we hold inside."   So we need to lay these grudges to rest, so that we will be freed from the power they have in our lives. So we gather here today to let these grudges go, to say "farewell." May they rest in peace, so that we can live in peace."