tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844434945868494835.post3430034286153100947..comments2024-03-27T06:22:08.326-04:00Comments on Douglas Whaley: An Atheist at a Believer’s Funeraldglswhaley@aol.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06014306127062171178noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844434945868494835.post-70985096939497001052014-02-24T19:20:01.375-05:002014-02-24T19:20:01.375-05:00Hi Doug,
I'm sorry to hear of your friend'...Hi Doug,<br /><br />I'm sorry to hear of your friend's passing. One of the nice things about the Bible, as I'm sure you know, is the variety of Truths within it. Ecclesiastes gives a good existentialist view as well:<br /><br />For the living know that they will die,<br /> but the dead know nothing;<br />they have no further reward,<br /> and even their name is forgotten.<br /><br />http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9<br /><br />This passage ends on a real downer, but I'm sure that with some creativity (which you have in spades) this could be turned into something comforting:<br /><br />I have seen something else under the sun:<br /><br />The race is not to the swift<br /> or the battle to the strong,<br />nor does food come to the wise<br /> or wealth to the brilliant<br /> or favor to the learned;<br />but time and chance happen to them all.<br /><br />Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:<br /><br />As fish are caught in a cruel net,<br /> or birds are taken in a snare,<br />so people are trapped by evil times<br /> that fall unexpectedly upon them.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com