And I've been working up the nerve to get my thoughts about it out but every time I get close it feels like someone dies and it seems like a bad time...
I don't like the phrase. Rest in Peace. It sounds so final but then it makes me wonder if it is because of the connuntation. We would never say that to someone going to sleep. For rather obvious reasons. But we think it works for death.
Rest in Peace.
Maybe it's just me but it makes it seem like the person is going to have their soul just lay in the box and just rest there. forever. And we are hoping no one digs them up. That's what I think about when I hear it. But that isn't what I believe happens. I don't think that we sit in a box. I believe we go to heaven. And we dance and sing and worship God. We don't Rest in Peace. We celebrate in heaven.
So it makes me wonder why people in the church use the term. Shouldn't we say something like D.I.H. Dance in Heaven? Or something more full of life? Rest in Peace sounds so... solemn.
Just my thoughts badly expressed.
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