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The Scattering Of Michael's Ashes
"The sun never sets on a legend"
"There are more things under heaven and earth than are in our understanding"
William Shakespeare
On January 22nd, 1998, Pastor Dennis Patterson, conducted a sunset
memorial service aboard a charted vessel, to scatter Michael's
ashes on Sydney Harbour. Immediate family members, the band and
closest friends who attended will probably never forget that
most spiritual and private hour. Around 8:00 p.m. that evening,
Sydney's skies were in all their glory. Ethereal hues splashed
out over a pastel sky that silhouetted the Harbour Bridge, the
Opera House and the city skyline. They called it Michael's sunset.
The series of events that had led to this sorrowful gathering
were barely sinking in. Emotions were still vacillating from,
shock, grief, bewilderment, numbness. Yet in hindsight, it seems
the moving of sovereign grace was already at work, orchestrating
a series of almost incredible circumstances that culminated in
what felt like a covering cloud of compassion over the "The
Ambience" vessel on that warm, calm summer evening.
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