Kenton J. Kutney

Remembering a dear old friend - a creative mentor, godly and faithful friend. I read this today in his honour to family and friends gathered together to say goodbye and to celebrate. From a novel by Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter , about memory and time: "And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment, in this presence. But you have a life too that you remember. It stays with you. You have lived a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present, and your memories of it, remembered now, are of a different life in a different world and time. When you remember the past, you are not remembering it as it was. You are remembering it as it is. It is a vision or a dream, present with you in the present, alive with you in the only time you are alive." You have today. And you have memory. Cherish both. Love with all your heart.