The other week I asked this snarky question to my Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook community: Over the past two weeks I’ve been attempting to encourage people to join me in sponsoring a child in Guatemala through World Vision. Within those two weeks over two million people have visited my Facebook page. Out of […]
After nine years of trying to bring a new life into our family, we wanted a child so much that we adopted. And Jeremiah is simply the greatest gift that we have EVER been given. I’ve always understood that children are precious, but waiting nine years for Jeremiah only amplified that sentiment. Today in the […]
Today I saw children destined for a greatness that will go unrealized. Undernourished until the age of three or four, their bodies will remain in an underdeveloped state where body, mind and spirit will be delayed from now until death. In this area of Guatemala, 9 out of 10 children suffer from this debilitating chronic […]
I was recently asked this question by one of my followers: Will grief hide itself and come back later? And, while I was thinking about my answer, this picture showed up in my life to confirm what I was already thinking. “Life is a spiral. Not a Circle.” We live in a culture that doesn’t […]
(The gender pronouns are slightly outdated in this poem, but it’s easy enough to substitute she for he.) Written by Darlene Rush This is for the undertaker, Whose story is sad to tell, For what he does is never mentioned, and often overlooked as well. He’s not at all what you might picture, He’s not […]