A Handy Funeral Home
Can't really blame some of the residents of a senior center in Idaho for protesting the building of a new funeral home right across the street. Who would want to spend their golden years staring at a reminder of the inevitable?
Still, I liked this 81-year-old lady's attitude: ""We're old here. We're all ready to go," she said. "I think it will be handy."
She's not afraid to look reality in the face. King Solomon said we all need reminding sometimes that the clock in ticking -- more than we need to party: "It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart." (Ecclesiastes 7:2)
Maybe a nice view of the funeral home isn't such a bad thing once in a while if it keeps us from living only for the days on this side of heaven.
Still, I liked this 81-year-old lady's attitude: ""We're old here. We're all ready to go," she said. "I think it will be handy."
She's not afraid to look reality in the face. King Solomon said we all need reminding sometimes that the clock in ticking -- more than we need to party: "It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart." (Ecclesiastes 7:2)
Maybe a nice view of the funeral home isn't such a bad thing once in a while if it keeps us from living only for the days on this side of heaven.
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