I like funerals. No other life experience can so expeditiously bring family together and God to the forefront. And, as a pastor, it’s the perfect recipe for a message about our mortality and how death was never part of God’s plan. I was very close to my Uncle Curt, who passed a few years ago. We drove from Texas to New Mexico for his funeral. After returning from what was a very nice visit with family under sad circumstances, I reflected on our trip and contemplated the meaning of death. People, religious or not, Christian or other, deal with death differently. Death ...