During our minitrsy time in Lesotho we got to go to a mortuary where we helped clean it to prepare for opening day. Things consisted of moving the coffins from one room to another, sweeping and waxing the floor and just cleaning up the building and yard in general. All of this seemed like simple work. But as we continue to work and clean up the building I began to pray for the people that would walk in this building with the grief that they will be going though. The family will have to pick a coffen and the workers will begin to love on them as the family goes though a hard time. As we were cleaning, the pastor said somthing very interesting to me. He said “You know you will never be alive in the coffen your body will lay in.” Which stuck to me that what he just said was true. When I die I won’t have an opinion about what coffen I get or what I want it to look like. I won’t be messing around to lay in the coffen that some day I want to be a buried in. I don’t even think that the US lets us lay in coffins for some fun. That’s kinda rude to be laying in a coffen that some day someone dead will be laying in. Which I realized the moment after I had already done it. But as Christians, we don’t have to be concerned with what happens to our earthly bodies because will be living forever with our Father in heaven.
