My wife wants to be cremated and I am still having trouble feeling good about it after a couple of years of knowing that.
However I am sure if I meet a pretty 35 year old woman not long after my wife's funeral I will learn to live with it!!!
Yea, my wife said if something happened to her I better not let some other woman wear her clothes. I said oh don't worry about that honey they won't fit!
Wasn't Thinkin
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"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
Yea, my wife said if something happened to her I better not let some other woman wear her clothes. I said oh don't worry about that honey they won't fit!
Wasn't Thinkin
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Yea, my wife said if something happened to her I better not let some other woman wear her clothes. I said oh don't worry about that honey they won't fit!
Wasn't Thinkin
Wow! You are a brave man!!! (or very, very stupid) LOL
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Depends on how and when I die and who's still alive. What I do NOT want is an open casket funeral with people filing by saying "She looks so natural!!!"
Cremation sounds best to me--too much imagination combined with too many years of sermons about worms and rot--plus the whole entombment process, from embalming methods to encasement just seems disgusting and unnatural. It seems like a way to maintain physical immortality to me. Cremation is "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"... just a lot faster than the old fashioned method. Some in my family think cremation is unChristian because they believe in a physical resurrection. I guess they don't think anyone that went "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", whether they were born thousands of years ago or died a martyr's death, can be resurrected. I think God's power is greater than that.
But there are also people in my family that think foul play is involved in any funeral that involves a closed casket, cremation, or organ donation. They're weird, but they're the ones that have to deal with the emotions and the sorrow, so I'll leave it to their choice. At least for now.
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