Lessons from a Funeral Home

Written By Al Staggs

LESSONS FROM A FUNERAL HOME

by Al Staggs

Like actors in a play,

we perform our roles

until our script is complete.

There is no rehearsal before

the stage manager pushes us on to the stage

with no instructions

and we do not choose those

with whom we share performance space.

Our works of compassion,

our loving caresses and kisses are eternal,

they are gifts for all time

as those expressions remain long after

we are laid down to our final repose.

So we must live lovingly

so that these tender expressions,

these gifts,

will serve as sources of inspiration

for those who remain.

This life is only and merely the opportunity

to enable the lives of those who follow.

Thus, we are more alive when we have passed.


Al Staggs

Alfred “Al” Staggs combines his artistic talents as a performing artist, author, and poet with his years as an ordained minister and chaplain to speak to justice issues in his several dramatic one-man plays of heroes of the faith such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clarence Jordan, William Sloane Coffin, and more. He has authored five books including What Would Bonhoeffer Say?, A Pilgrim in Rome, and Fragments of Life. He uses his story of growing up in a dysfunctional home, his degrees in psychology, and theology, and training in humor therapy to touch audiences with his Laughter for Life program, impersonating many beloved and infamous characters.

https://www.peacewithjustice.com/
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