Burial or Cremation?

The title might have gotten your attention, no? Yep! those are sheep grazing in the cemetery! Andrew Nolan's ram and 4 sheep were loose and wandering around eating flowers and grasses amongst the tombstones! They were an early morning surprise and delight our first morning in Glendalough. The bad shearing job below especially made me laugh!

 

Between the struggles with my health and the fact that I will attend two memorial services for friends who have passed this Friday and then Saturday, I wanted to share my thoughts about this body.

I want my body to be cremated when I die. I do not want to take any chance that I will get the same body back when I am clothed with immortality. It has been a struggle to live peacefully in this body. When the time comes that I am finished with it, please destroy it so there is NOT A CHANCE that it will be mine for eternity.

You see, I believe the passage from 1 Corinthians that says we will 'bear the image of the heavenly man.' We will be changed! Glory to God. Bring it on King Jesus!

1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 15:42-54 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”