Below is the text of the prayer and blessing given at the Hall of Fame Induction Event at the Louisville South Facility on November 7, 2012.
How many countless lives have you served, have you changed, have you loved, have you saved.
To the recipients: We love you so much and are honored to be here today as a collective community to celebrate great lives and beautifully lived lives, lives that matter in every breath and moment. We thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight because of your greatness. You are ever so rich before our eyes evident by your great works and the impenetrable faith reflected in your histories. You are heroes with the richest of legacies. And tonight we celebrate those legacies so they are never forgotten. We honor you and love you and appreciate you just as your proud family and friends do sitting next to you.
Let us embrace your wisdom and exquisite beauty. Thank you for your service and courage in the building of cities, communities, persons, and a nation. For while you are hometown heroes, your mark is indelible in the rise of this great nation. You are our sage advisors and guiding stars.
I think of Raymond Shanie for he fought to free a nation and as an engineer in WWII, how many lives did he save, and how many people did he serve as a volunteer at the wayside Christian mission.
I think of Molly Grayson, a leader, an impassioned award winning artist and a caregiver in her own right as a volunteer at St. Mary’s hospital for so many years.
And what about Shelly Brown, a 21 year stakeholder, offering hope to the hopeless, encouraging living, not death, with the power to heal, one who never gives up; how many has she served, how many countless lives has she touched and inspired.
And Dr. Nair in the field of the living and restoration. How many has he healed and restored, calmed and loved with the knowledge of a doctor, as well as the compassion and love of a friend.
We have benefited from all of you and are a byproducts of your greatness. Let us all never forget this, and that for each of us sitting here tonight, purpose reigns in every breath and that courageous dreams are always rewarded. Let us celebrate these accomplishments before us, and the competitive natures and passions and dreams which never die in the blood but only sometimes in the sadness of the heart. Let us here be inspired; never losing our dreams, our God given right to a fruitful paths.
Therefore, I ask God to bless all to overflow this night, pressed down, shaken together. Bless this grateful day. Bless all hands, all feet and all hearts. Thank you.
Dianne H. Timmering
Vice President of Spirituality
Signature Consulting Services, LLC
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