Category: funerals

  • Touching places

    I have just heard a news report that doesn’t surprise me. Apparently we are running out of space in cemeteries. I have often wondered about that when driving past cemeteries and graveyards. We have a finite amount of space and an increasing need for it. When I was younger I used to think that cemeteries…

  • the end

    Today marks my last day ‘at work’ until almost the end of August. It also marks the last of my daily bloggages until then. This is not because I intend to stop reflecting but because I will not necessarily be within reach of a machine or internet connection with which to write the bloggerel that…

  • >dearly beloved…

    >When I was training to be a Minister I dreaded the idea of taking funerals. I could not imagine myself doing so. It all seemed so morbid and dark. But in my first church I had the privilege of serving alongside a brilliant Minister, David Richardson. He taught me so much about being a Minister,…