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Ooowee!
It’s amazing and will leave one speechless!
Please if you want to keep up with what I’ve been talking about the last three weeks call the Call & Post and order your subscription to newspaper and read Bishop Speaks. If you can’t do that, find a Call & Post at the nearest store and catch up to this point where I’m at.
I’m sharing my visit to one of the local funeral homes and “having my way, by having my say,” meaning pre-planning my going out of this world in style. In style, meaning being responsible in handling my business for my earthly body to go into the grave decent and in order. Hello!
Before I continue going down the list with the funeral director pre-planning my wishes, I have a question I want to ask each of you my readers.
If you died today, what would you see your love ones doing and saying in regards to the situation of your death in the Spirit world if that would happen? As a minister sitting with many families after a love one has died, I’ve heard these statements:
“I ain’t got no money.”
“All the liquor he drank and weed he smoked, he could have paid for three life insurance policies.”
“She stayed in that big house and had that new car and didn’t have no insurance?”
“She had a policy but stopped paying on it.”
One funeral home, just last week, had the funeral service but is still waiting on the family to bring the rest of the money so the body can finally get to the cemetery. This funeral home knows, from past experiences, that once the body goes in the ground and there is a balance owed, they “most likley” won’t get paid.
This is scandelous!
Funeral homes want to be there for you but remember it’s a business and they have a payroll to pay, individuals on staff, and let’s not even mention gas to even come pick up your remains for starters. HELLO!
“Ok, bishop it’s time to talk about transportation,” stated the funeral director.”
I see on the form that my remains (body) must be picked up and brought to the funeral home, which there is a cost. I sit asking no questions. I see there is a cost for the hearse to bring my body to the funeral home. I know already the hearse is the car made to carry my body in that ugly black bag. I’ve seen it so often when family members cry as their love one is being carried out.
“I have a question,” I said to the funeral director since this price seems so large to me.
I ask her, “If you charging to come get my body and bring it to the funeral home, why you charging me another price to put me in the hearse?
As she laughs, getting ready to answer, I continue my question, “Wouldn’t the hearse just be a given and should be included in just picking up my remains?”
Ooowee!
Her answer made me laugh so hard, I got another discount on being picking up. Ooowee! To Blessed to be Stressed as I’m having my say, getting my way and being blessed with discounts.
Stay tuned to next week’s column as I continue this journey with you.
You can e-mail the bishop at bishopspeaks@aol.com or write him at the church, 969 E. 140th, Cleveland, Ohio 44110. Stop by the church each Sunday 11 a.m. for the Praise Service or call the church (216) 761-7100. The church located directly across from the Job Corps Campus. Visit Bishop on FaceBook under Bishop Prince J. Moultry or the In Touch for Christ Christian Center or the church website at
