Don’t Send or Bring Flowers

Flowers aren’t necessary. The only exception would be two substitutes. First of all, bring flower seeds. Seeds look dead, but at the proper time they poke their heads above ground and amaze those who observe what was dead and without beauty spring to life.

If it is spring or summer, bring my wife something she can plant in her garden. Tell her it was a gift from me. Cindie likes daylilies, iris, tulips, and zinnias. Visit her blog and you will see more of the colors she likes.

Here are some links.

About Cindie

Flowers Day 2

For the Love of Purple

Beautiful Garden Partners Peony and Iris

Bring Your Voice

Bring your voice. Be prepared to sing. What my family and friends need to hear when I am gone is the same thing they needed to hear and see when I was alive. They need to hear the gospel. They need to be reminded of the hope of the follower of Jesus. Be prepared to sing “His Mercy is More.”

Bring your memories.

Tell someone (my wife, our children, our grandchildren) something about me that they may have forgotten or that they never knew. Write your thoughts down on a piece of paper. You can skip the fancy Hallmark cards. Your own words and memories are more valuable.

Bring Encouragement (1 Thessalonians 4:14-18)

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

I might beat you to meet the Lord in the air. If you are a follower of Jesus, then my words to you are: “See you then!”

All scripture passages are from the English Standard Version except as otherwise noted.