I dressed in black and showed up in the church at the appointed time. I stood and sat when I was told. I listened to the words and tried to understand the symbolism in the message.
"Find comfort in the passing of a loved one, know The Truth, for she has a place in His house now."
Believe, I was told. Believe that He knows us and that He has a plan.
"We are hungry because there is food. We are thirsty because there is water. We breathe because there is air. Therefore we believe because He is real, because Heaven is real."
This is the logic intended to comfort a mourner? There has to be a better place because we believe it? Then why do the children of Niger yearn for food?
Maybe The Truth is that sometimes things just suck.
“You are what I never knew I always wanted”
12 years ago
3 comments:
Good title. Perhaps that's why people send so much food after funerals, more comfort is needed.
I know what you mean. Always with a funeral service it's hardly ever about the person you are mourning, but more about the pitch, the sales pitch to the Almighty.
Bobby once sent me these words nabbed from another source after my friend Jeff died:
I understand, but do not approve, and I am not reconciled.
"We are hungry because there is food. We are thirsty because there is water. We breathe because there is air. Therefore we believe because He is real, because Heaven is real."
That's a real big leap in logic. That's someone writing a timed essay and time is growing short.
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