funeral talk yesterday
by A brother named Bob Porter died not too long ago, at the age of 79. His funeral talk was yesterday. He was 73 when he came into the truth, but he didn't lack vitality or anything, for that matter. he was at every meeting, commented constantly and was out in service quite often. the brother who brought him into the truth gave the talk. i don't imagine it was easy for him. i learned that he was in World War 2, married twice, and worked at the same place for 58 years. i didn't know these things, even after becoming his friend, because he never spoke about anything that didn't have something to do with the truth. he'd say, "where have you fine people been all my life?" and i'd wonder. but what's important is that he embraced the truth, dedicated himself and was a strong brother until he died. i'm going to miss him a lot.
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that was very good. that's a nice thing to be able to say about people, that they were always speaking about the truth.
i was also at a funeral this weekend, and ... with family, you want to be able to empathaize with them, like we learned about at the meeting this week. but then, sometimes, it's almost scary to do that. that's what i've been thinking about all day. how to deal with a situation like that.
I've been to quite a few lately. a sister found her son dead in bed last month. too many *substances* in his blood, it killed him
He was never baptised but he had come the the meeting that SUnday! 2 days later he was dead. But he really wanted to try to come back to the truth. Now his girlfriend is studying!
They gave a nice talk at the funeral and it was PACKED.
ugg, I always feel SOO horrible at those kinda talks, I went to one for a sister in my hall that I was close to, ugg, sucha bad day, but she had a TON of people there, would I was so happy for.
That is so sad, but very encouraging. You can draw on their will to "fight the fine fight of faith" and not give up. There was a brother in my hall that I loved very much and he died faithfully. He was 85 years old and had major illnesses, BUT, he was ALWAYS at meetings. If he was placed in the hospital for certain conditions, as soon as they would release him from the hospital, you know for sure he would be at the next meeting. He couldn't walk well but still did door to door work, driving in his car every few houses or so. SO encouraging! So when i sometimes i feel the weight of this world on my shoulders I jsut remember these brothers and sisters and how they fought for the faith!
grey-headedness IS key
Just promise me everyone has fun at my funeral. I'm gonna put the FUN back in FUNeral. or as i like to say.. FUN-(F)ER-AL(L).
Everyone should wear party hats that say my name on it. and those cool sunglasses that usually say like 2004 but instead... like.. BOOB or something. and tape it !! cause i wanna see it in the future!! alright! ohhhh and no RIP STONES or anything. plant me a tree.. with a plaque that says.. THis is ty's tree.
and make sure no one chops me down. cause i'll be mad.
should we all be eating chinese food at this?? YELLOW RICE...for the effect...also we shoudl watch the temple of doom
"no time for love, dr. jones!"
well whoever wants to bring the chinese go for it.
but it should be a celebration.
people shouldn't be like.. ' ohh i can't hang out and party tonight because of a funeral '
everyone should be like ' yo you going to ty's funeral i hear it's gonna be CRAZZZZY '...
good times.
everyone who attends Thai's funeral must tape up the corners of their eyes, faux chinky style. *cue footage of drunk ezabelers bumping into each other at the viewing due to self inflicted visual impairment*
we'll put his body in a large fortune cookie and bury it in vegas. *cue footage of iwz and rocksupastar lowering the large fortune cookie into a large hole in the ground, while drunk ezabelers weep bitterly. jay79, reaf and juicymango throw themselves on the fortune cookie and beg to be taken too, soon they begin to eat the fortune cookie*
I liked what you wrote. Its a sad thing to realize after its all said and done that you never really knew someone until their gone. But that's why Jehovah gave us the resurrection - so we can get a second chance to learn everything we didn't in the first place.
yeah, i kind of wish i asked him more questions. i didn't feel comfortable asking about his personal life, i guess. he never really gave me the sign that it'd be proper to inquire. at the same time, we were never NOT talking about things. s'funny.