Time To Go Home Now

Like all gardens and parks, this is a place to linger not to over due your stay – or welcome. This place is the perfect escape from the daily grind. It’s lovely, quiet, and peaceful and the eternal residence of someone you once knew. The entire purpose of the visit comes packaged as the trip, the memories invoked, and the honor paid. The Bible says, there is no thought in the grave. That’s true, and there is no spirit there either. Nature has claimed her own and She has a time clock running on you as well.  It’s time to get back to the hustle and bustle outside the garden gate. We’ll all get an eternity to lie around once our jobs are completed. But now leave such thoughts right here. What you’re fate will be, if others will visit your grave, heaven or hell?  Go! get back into life. And when it gets to be all too much again, come visit the garden where the one you miss is forever.

If you bring along this book with you when you visit a day will come when you will have read cover to cover and experienced a visit as it should be conducted; many times in fact. When that day arrives and your copy of this guide is well worn, perhaps you ought to pass the book onto another and reduce your visits to holidays and anniversaries.  In my trade we never ever say good-bye to people.  You will be back. Next time, however, the dread and awkwardness will not accompany you.

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty of high ideals."
William Ewart. Gladstone (1808-98)
British Prime Minister

By permission from Pete Mamorato, Art Stone Memorials