Today I have the honor of performing another funeral service for a friend. 

Funerals are never easy - but some are easier than others.

There seems to be a fine line between living a life that keeps one's mortality in view in regard to living daily for Christ, and being downright morbid about dying one day.

I want to make sure I'm communicating clearly on this: funerals have a way of snapping people into reality; Something that brings a sense of seeing what is most important in life.  As a Christian, I want to live each day for Jesus so that when I reach the end of this old body, I have no regrets (I grant you, I have not fully achieved this goal as of yet).  On the other hand, I do not want to live each day thinking about my death here on earth, so as to give me a constant melancholic attitude.

I actually wonder very little what people will say on my death.  I do however, speculate what God will say.

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