Going Home

Today I went to a "Home Going" service for one of my church members. Some people call such an event a "funeral". But where's the LIFE in that word? There isn't any. I just looked up the definition, and here's how the word funeral is defined by Webster:

- the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation

- an end of something's existence

As a believer in Christ, His death, burial, and resurrection, I know that there is no death, for the believer. When life ends here on earth, for the believer, it continues in the very next instant with God. Period. So you see, the believer, is never DEAD, nor does their existence ever end. For the believer, there is life, and that life is ETERNAL.

Over the years, I've been to many services to celebrate the life of someone no longer with us. And one thing that rings 100% true about everyone that I've been to...each one is unique. As they should be. Just as each life is unique, so too should be each person's life celebration.

I've been to some services where I cried for days after. I went to one a few years ago where I felt a very strong need to shower and pray after attending. The things that went on at the service did not sit well at all with my spirit. I left that service wondering, "what in the _ _ _ _ was that???"

I went to one a couple weeks ago for a woman who was in her 80s, and as we made the procession to the cemetery, we were lead by a car club. Hard core dudes who you wouldn't want to cross on a bad day, yet there they were, stopping traffic for us because they knew and RESPECTED the woman we were remembering that day. I had never seen anything like that.

So yes, today, we celebrated another life who has GONE HOME to be with the LORD. And I am so thankful that today was not goodbye, it was just, "see ya later".

Let the DIALOGUE begin! What was the most interesting Homegoing service you've ever attended?

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Til next time...