A late Picture From Easter
Hannah's Birthday is next month and she will be one. She wasn't into the hunting eggs so much as she was into hiding them in her mouth.
The Death of a Funeral Director
News travels fast in a small town.It went out over the police scanner that an
ambulance had been sent to the local funeral home.That’s not normally a place that EMT’s work
to save a life, but that day they were.The funeral director had suffered a heart attack in his chair on a
Sunday afternoon, and his life was in danger.He is a church member as well as a good friend, and I got the call while
I was in my office.I rushed down to the
hospital to be there and get an update, but upon sight of the family it was
evident I didn’t need an update.Roger
didn’t make it.
I hugged his wife and grieved with his employees, who were there to collect his body.I had the privilege to help them load the funeral director into a car with name on the side.The gravity of the moment was overwhelming.Roger had grown up the son of a funeral director and had spent almost all of his life around death.He himself had stood in countless hospitals and homes around grieving families, not just to provide a service but t…
I hugged his wife and grieved with his employees, who were there to collect his body.I had the privilege to help them load the funeral director into a car with name on the side.The gravity of the moment was overwhelming.Roger had grown up the son of a funeral director and had spent almost all of his life around death.He himself had stood in countless hospitals and homes around grieving families, not just to provide a service but t…
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