And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.'But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ -Luke 12:19 & 20, NIV
We are gathered in this precious moment in time to not only part—cough, cough—I mean, um, mourn another preco—precious loss of this man laid in front of us, but to celebrate the fleeting, mysterious and disjointed ways of this earthly passage we call time. Time is in fact, my brothers and sisters, a sweet, and savory element that, uh, already--
–Just get on with it!
Ah, yes-this man laid before us was never greedy nor salacious: he was a saint!
But, unfortunately, his days were tragically cut short.
Sob...Who would've thought...Sob...That such a short life would be cut so short!...Sob, sob...Oh, God! What is wrong with this world!?!? I used to believe in what this nation used to be! Why did they kill the prince!? Why, God, Why!...Oh...