Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Vocabulary Of Death #2

You strengthen your faith and comfort your soul by keeping your words in harmony with what you believe.

“She looks so natural.” This means that the undertaker did a great job and the body looks almost as if the person was still alive. “She looks so natural.” No, she doesn’t. We don’t know exactly how she looks right now because we can perfectly visualize a disembodied soul, but I can promise you this: “she” doesn’t look like that dead body in the coffin.
Let’s say what we believe. “Yes, the undertaker did a good job with the body, but I wonder what she looks like right now, all shining with the light of God’s glory?”

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