IN LOVING MEMORY OF RODNEY ("RUSTY") FOWLKES Sometimes God picks the flower that is still in full bloom Sometimes the rosebud chosen we feel He’s picked too soon Sometimes the flower is fading with petals floating down But God knows the perfect time to gather flowers from the ground Life is but a stopping place A pause in what's to be A resting place along the road to sweet eternity Our destination is a place Far greater than we know For some the journey's quicker For some the journey's slow You fell asleep without goodbye But memories of you will never die Time may pass and fade away But memories of you will always stay A cluster of memories sprinkled with tears Wishing God had spared you a few more years Tenderly we treasure the past With memories that will surely last Don't think of him as gone away his journey's just begun life holds so many facets this earth is only one Just think of him as resting from the sorrows and the tears in a place of warmth and comfort where there are no days and years And think of him as living in the hearts of those he touched for nothing loved is ever lost and he was loved so much