R.I.P
Category:Being,Community,death,Fear,grief,Hope,Joy,life,MercyTaking a funeral is one of those things which mess with the emotions. or so i find.
Recently I was asked to take the service for a complete stranger, and just to make it interesting, it was with just three days notice.
It would be fair to say after meeting with the family for only an hour, i did not ‘feel’ adequately prepared.
Over the course of the day prior to the funeral I was reminded that while this person was not known to me, they were no stranger to God.
As I processed that thought, it gave me great confidence, not in my ability, rather a sense of trusting God in whose image this person was made, and who lived life as part of the wider community, so in listening and watching that community during the service, I got a glimpse of the person who was being laid to rest.
Yet another reminder, we are all God’s children and God is not far from anyone of us.
