It is important to begin the day with a devotional thought and a little humor to make the day go better. The following is an excerpt from our book, So? Whatever!
Crawling around under a house is not a fun job. But this particular day a worker found a cute brass box. He emptied the dirt and ashes, intending to take it home at the end of the day. At lunch the lady of the house asked if they had seen the box. It was her deceased husband’s ashes. The worker quickly dusted the imagined ashes off, crawled back under the house, refilled the little box with some dirt and placed it back on the sill.
This presents a very important concept. Listen carefully. Man is not a body that has a soul—he is the soul and has a body. When God breathed into Adam the breath of life, he became a living soul. The real you is your soul, and it has a body; not the other way around. When a loved one passes away, it is only the cessation of the body with the soul living on into eternity. A Christian’s consolation is in knowing this great truth.
Psalm 116:8 For you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling,
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