You mean you cannot see yourself laying on board a giant wooden ship cast afloat in the middle of a big lake or near the shore of the ocean, while a lone archer lifts his bow holding an arrow who's end has just been lit aflame. Then it is released, in slow motion of course, and gracefully flies through the air until it lands on your ship which promptly goes up in a giant ball of flame.... All to a Vangelis soundtrack in the background. This does not intrigue you?
If my wife would go for that, that is how I would want it done. That way always struck me as regal, somber, respectful and extremely awesome.
Thinking about it! Gonna request that they scatter my ashes up and down the isles at Wal Mart. That way my wife will come see me every day!
She'll probably put me in an urn and place me on the mantel so that when she gets her a new husband she can stick her tongue out at me each time she passes!
Been Thinkin
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"From the time you're born, 'til you ride in the hearse, there ain't nothing bad that couldn't be worse!"
LIFE: Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant!
I have ... Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia! The fear of long words.
"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
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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
I usta have a pastor that preached against cremation. I can't remember if he had any scripture about it.
Of course not having any scripture to back up what he taught didn't stop him from preaching any of the other cockemamey things he taught.
are their any scriptures that are pro or con on creamation?
1 Samuel 31:12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1 Corinthians 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
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!!!
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"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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