You're welcome.
While here - if anyone checking this thread has not found the link to the beautiful "Mansions of the Lord" music from the Funeral of President Ronald Reagan, it can be heard here.
As I am not a movie goer, I had never heard that beautiful hymn or its haunting drums and melody sung and played as the President's casket was carried out of the Cathedral. It is a new "favorite".
The music, the hymns, both sung and played; the euologies; the military precision and dress; the respect and love poured out by the American people; the poignant grief of the very tiny Mrs. Reagan with her huge eyes of sadness and sorrow mixed with the arms of God upholding her; the wonderful gentle kindness and strength of the General escorting her; the witness and honor shown to the life of the President by Baroness Thatcher, especially; the riderless horse; the horse-drawn caisson; the throngs lining the streets of Washington DC and the Highways of California; the rain at the Cathedral and peaceful sunset at the Presidential Library; the flag folded so carefully and given to Mrs. Reagan; her final tears of sorrow for her beloved husband shed over that beautiful mahogany casket holding his earthly remains...and the bagpiped Amazing Grace ------ how could any week be any more profoundly moving?
There is something we say / sing in church: God be in my speaking, in my thinking, and in my dying.
God was certainly in President Reagan's dying. What a gift we have been given.
My father said his large church's service was packed today. He, a WWII Veteran thinks this week's events, perhaps like the 911 events and National Cathedral Service in which President George W Bush spoke so movingly as well, have drawn people back to God - and to a love and gratitude for our country.
I hope he is right.