funerals

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

Samson caused the house to collapse, knowing his death would also result. Despite Samson__ deliberate suicide, Samson died faithful after having judged Israel for 20 years. His name rightly appears among men who, through faith, were made powerful. (Jg 15:20; 16:29-31; Heb 11:32-34) We are surrounded by thousands of unseen cruelties, that mostly go unseen. The total amount of suffering each year is beyond comprehension. This world is barbed, dangerous and painful__oo painful for some. Give them their space. On any given day, your nod of approval may perpetuate cruelties that rasp away at the soul of another. We are all bound together in this delicate web of consequence. Tread light. Be kind. Many among us make unseen bargains to push ourselves onward__nother hour, another day, another week. Occasionally their bargains create a deadly, unstoppable momentum. Consider King Saul: When he realized that he would not survive his final battle against the Philistines, rather than letting his enemy humiliate him, or extort Israel, __aul took the sword and fell upon it._ _1Sam 31:4pg 75

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it__ over. Be pleasant but don__ smile too much; be sad but don__ overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don__ let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on __heir_ house and spending less of it on __heir_ car or cars only when they start being able to take __heir_ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.