🇺🇸 ‘Good And Faithful Servant’: 7 Religion Takeaways From Jimmy Carter’s Funeral 🔌

2. “God did a good thing when he made your dad.” 

That’s what Steven Ford said to Jimmy Carter’s grieving children: Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy.

Ford, son of former President Gerald Ford, read a eulogy for Carter that his father wrote before his Dec. 26, 2006, death at age 96. 

The former political rivals, who later became close friends, each penned a eulogy for each other. (I knew there was something I liked about Gerald Ford.)

“Now, Jimmy learned early on that it was not enough merely to bear witness in a pew on Sunday morning,” Steven Ford said, sharing his father’s words. “Inspired by his faith, he pursued brotherhood across boundaries of nationhood, across boundaries of tradition, across boundaries of caste, in America’s urban neighborhoods and in rural villages around the world. He reminded us that Christ had been a carpenter.”

Later in the eulogy, Gerald Ford wrote: “Now, of course, not all of Jimmy’s time was spent building houses, eradicating disease, brokering cease fires, monitoring elections. While Jimmy is probably the only former president to conduct a weekly Bible class, I know for certain he is the only former president to perform a duet of ‘On The Road Again’ with Willie Nelson.

“Georgia wasn’t just on Jimmy’s mind. It was in his blood. However far he traveled, he never forgot where he came home to or where now, in the end, he would finally come home to.”