Country Funeral

Gooney Bird · Post by **Gooney Bird** » August 19, 2007 7:08 pm

Country Funeral

As a young minister, I was asked by a funeral director to hold a grave-side service for a homeless man, with no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a new cemetery way back in the country, and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there. As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I became lost; and being a typical man did not stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew, who were eating lunch, but the hearse was nowhere in sight.

I apologized to the workers for my tardiness, stepped to the side of the open grave and saw that the vault lid was already in place. I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long, but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch. I poured out my heart and soul. As I preached the workers began to say "Amen," "Praise the Lord," and "Glory"! I preached, and I preached, like I'd never preached before, from Genesis all the way to Revelations. I closed the lengthy service with a prayer and walked to my car. As I was opening the door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another, "I ain't never seen nothing like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » August 19, 2007 8:09 pm

IrishPirate · Post by **IrishPirate** » August 19, 2007 11:42 pm

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CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » August 20, 2007 3:53 pm

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » August 20, 2007 3:56 pm

Yeah.

I LOL'd.

unclejohn · Post by **unclejohn** » August 20, 2007 7:05 pm