Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
This article urges Christians to refrain from allowing funerals to be replaced by celebrations of life. A celebration of life evades the inescapable fact that there’s been a death. Instead of an acknowledgement of that they become “post-mortem roasts for non-celebrities.” Jason Allen isn’t against laughter and a sense of lightness, but any lightness should …
Today was the first time I saw this apparatus on which a coffin is placed in order to be lowered into a grave. Apparently it’s safer that the ground-level apparatus they formerly used. I suppose the big city cemeteries have been using these for years. (I imagine they’d also hinder any folk who might be …
A funeral for a Christian man, whose life was the aroma of Jesus. At the graveside his family were given sprigs of rosemary, the herb of remembrance, to cast in the grave. Holding the herb, squeezing it gently, breathing in the herbaceous sweet woody aroma provided a pause to collect final memories of this man, …
