Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, September 12, 2011

Bid Farewell With Traditional Funeral Services Houston

By Marty Don


It is quite a very heavy burden for a person to take when a particular person or loved one has passed away. Mortality of mankind closes everything at the end of the day. Organizing traditional funeral services Houston may be the most painful to organize for the person closest to your heart. But there is no way out. This will be the last chance to show how you truly love the person.

Traditional funeral services Houston are based on a history loaded with using complete services that include chapels, viewing rooms with an embalmed body that people are viewing in an open casket. This can be contemporary or religious. This is the most common type of service, in which a formal funeral service or ceremony is held in a place of worship or funeral home. It typically includes hymns, a eulogy, prayers, funeral procession or military honors. It is followed by a procession to the cemetery for internment or entombment and a graveside service.

Traditional funeral services Houston consist of a viewing or wake during which family, friends, and guests can visit the bereaved family at a funeral home. There may or may not be an open casket viewing during this time, but it is a chance for family and friends to come together to mourn. It is usually held the day before the funeral service Houston or over a period of two days, either at night or in a combination of day and evening hours. The duration length of the visiting hours is scheduled to accommodate the needs of the family.

Following the formal Houston funeral services, the funeral home will be the one to transfer the body in a hearse to the burial plot. Generally, a few words are said and a blessing for the deceased's soul is shared. Advice will also be available from the ministers of the religion or religious organization that the deceased may have belonged to. The person who has died may already have arranged a grave space in a churchyard or cemetery which may be included in the will.

Despite the existence of modern memorial services, traditional funeral services Houston are still popular these days.




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There is More to Family Than Meets the Eye

By Ryan Letterman


On the surface, the question "What is a family?" seems obvious. It's the people you're related to, right? The ones you've known every day of your life, or the ones you wake up to every morning. It's the core unit around which your life is built, that shapes the shape of your day, that pushes you to do what you do.

Does that about cover it?

Not at all. We tend to think of our family in terms of responsibility, as in family responsibilities. The places we have to go. The people we must help. The things we must do for them. All of those duties are indeed things that must be taken care of as a family does bring with it certain obligations. We must not forget however, that family is not all about what we do for them, but for what they do for us.

Family Helps You Grow

Families are there to guide the children, yes. But those children are also instrumental in guiding their parents or guardians down roads they never knew they would take, just ask any parent or guardian and they will concur. Family erects the framework to assist you in making the difficult choices in life, pushing you to places you never imagined you could go, while at the same time keeping you loyal to the family, the ones who love you most.

Family's Build Strength of Character

You may have heard the bit of philosophy that you never know your strength until strength is the only option you have left. The family instills this strength in you and gives you the confidence to use it when you need to. Family is your foundation.

Family Offers a Rock to Stand On

When you flounder, it's not usually because you've looked around and no one was standing there to help. It's because you've been too scared or embarrassed to reach out for that help, terrified that the people around you are going to judge you.

But family is your rock, the folks that are there for you when you ask them for help. Sure, they will judge you, but they will do so with love and wisdom while encouraging you to come out on top of whatever troubles you bear. Family is your stability in life's struggles that can seem utterly insane at times.

What your Family is Faced with

Modern society doesn't do a lot to encourage family stability. Obstacles that can destroy your family lurk around every corner. It is your duty as a child, a parent, a spouse and an individual to understand the value of the family unit, no matter who it is that makes up that unit, and do whatever is required to hold that unit together. You will find your efforts to be worthwhile.




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