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I have thought about it only because I want to build my own casket. I want to make it out of metal and it will be chrome. The song might be “Another one bites the dust” by Queen while everyone drinks a beer. But it will be good time of celebrating a life well lived.
When the saints go marchin’ in we want to be in that number.
Gotta be cremated…want the fire, gotta have the fire! and then big party for everyone afterwards, no sad faces just dancing, laughing and celebrating the truth of what Jesus has done and that Ive just “moved house” and everyone will be seeing me sooner or later.
Awesome time! Here is a poem I wrote about it years ago:
Party
It’s getting closer- each breath that I breathe, each day that I live
It’s drawing nearer- cant you see the signs, open up your eyes
The preperations are being made
The wine will flow and the food out laid
It will soon be that day……
Ther’s a party going on in heaven
Those washed in His blood
Have been invited to come
There’s a party going on in heaven
But it wont start
Until this broken heart Is there
Its getting closer- fear in the hearts, where darkness imparts
It’s drawing nearer- tears in their eyes, but they soothe them with lies.
Life Everlasting, the gift He has given
Rejected by some but you’ll see me in heaven
It will soon be that day
There’s a party going on in heaven
I will dance with the Son
Now the race has been run
There’s a party going on in heaven
With my voice I will sing
Praise to the King of All
Standing before His thrown
Fear all gone, when His brightness shone
Gazing in His face
Love overflows
It’s my heart that He knows
I will hold His wounded hands for real
When He leads me to the wedding meal
My whole family will be there
Brothers and sisters all to share
I cant wait for that day!
There’s a party going on in heaven……
Not that I think about it much 🙂
I love it – I already wrote some thoughts down to leave behind for my family, should the unthinkable happen and I quit this earth early and unexpectedly!
Lots of colour, lots of music, lots of life, but also space for the people closest to me. I know how hard it is to cope with loss and they’ll need space to grieve in there too.
But I have sooooo many crazy stories of funerals I have played piano for or sung at in my career……you wouldn’t believe the half of them! But one springs to mind reading all these cremation comments above…..
A lovely old lady from our church died and her daughters insisted on having “her all time favourite Christian song” just at the moment the curtains come around in the crematorium and the coffin goes off into the flames. We tried really hard to dissuade them, but they insisted and….well…..it was their funeral!!
As the moment came, we began to sing the verse “colours of day dawn into my mind……” and the vicar could hardly contain himself. Then the chorus struck up: “light up the fire and let the flame burn, open the door let Jesus return……”
It was the funniest thing!! They said afterwards they think they made the wrong choice actually………!!!!!
Rapture or PARTAY!