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, …
These sorts of posts pop up from time to time and they’re always worth reflecting on, particularly for Christians. Make sure your family knows you want your funeral to be about Jesus and not about you. People are under all sorts of pressure to conform to a pattern that makes a funeral all about the …
Attended the funeral today of a 49 year old husband, father of two and follower of Jesus. For twenty-one years he lived with the impact of cancers in his head. For forty-nine years he lived a life that grew and grew in its demonstration of the love of God who loved Him in Christ. Among …
