DJ Teo Bayliss

“Safe in the arms of Jesus”

Those of you who have made the effort to come here today must know something of the enormity of this tragedy. You must have stopped and braced yourself, and taken a deep breath before you came here today. Each one of you needed to catch hold of ourselves before facing this service.

Our hearts go out to that family in their tragic loss. We are all in solidarity with them.

Each baby is a precious individual cherished life. I should say that the parents had intimate knowledge, but someone else as well: God knew them all that time, too.  Every part of us, every thought and every deed is known to God, even from before our birth.   God knows these intimate details, and he is a loving God,  he knows these things. He cares.

Your grief/anger/questions is the measure of your love for that child. It tells us how central to our lives love is.

Out of our losses we learn more about love, because the depth of our loss is the price we pay for the love we have. If we did not love the child or person we had lost we would not grieve.

Our lives are up and down. In the downs we learn about love – because we yearn for what we are missing. In the ups we learn about love to – because they teach us about the joy of loving relationships.

The loss of DJ Teo which you mourn today is  a tragic part of our life on earth that in most other respects is so great and enjoyable. Indeed one reason we are heartbroken is because we all wanted DJ to share that enjoyable life.

I believe that many of our human experiences are pointers to spiritual things.

Especially if you believe in a loving God – or say something like that love is the supreme principle of the universe – you have to ask yourself whether the power of love could give up on a precious cherished life.

Gemma told me that she and Daniel have been drawn closer together. That is wonderful. That is the way forward for them. We rejoice in their love for each other.

DJ was born asleep on 30th January 2021.

A treasured and very much loved son, brother and grandson who will be loved and remembered every day.

A service for DJ was held at Crewe Cemetery Chapel followed by a burial in Meadowbrook Cemetery.