I’ve been doing a little thinking today about Epitaphs. Or tombstone sayings. Here are a few that I found online that cracked me up:
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery,
Nova Scotia:
Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.
Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco,
Arizona in the
cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill
Cemetery in
Tombstone,
Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No Moore.
In a Georgia cemetery:
"I told you I was sick!"
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny.
On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond,
Virginia:
She always said her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.
thanks to my friend Google search for helping me out on this one.
I have given a lot of thought to death over the last few years. with all of my medical history, I’d be crazy not too… I don’t think about this all of the time, just the times that I end up in ICU and Hospital and…. well I digress.
I’ve never given much thought to what I would like my tombstone to say, until today. Then I read Acts 11:24.
“Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord.”
Thats it. Thats what I want on my tombstone. Or said at my funeral. Or both. What could sum up a life better than that?
I may not have much say on what goes on my stone— who knows, my wife may not want a tombstone, she may opt for a cup from David’s Tea… either way, I would like this verse to be spoken about me; so I am, starting right now, praying this small verse.
I want to be a good man. Full of the Holy Spirit. Strong in the faith. and see many people come to the Lord.
Let it be so, Lord.
