Preaching and Reading the Old Testament Lessons
I cry at weddings. I don't know if that's true of others of you in the congregation, but somehow, that is a ceremony so packed with emotion and beautiful memories that it always brings me to tears. I even cried at my own wedding, not because I was sad, but because I was filled with joy. Usually, however, weddings are not occasions for tears. They are occasions for celebration.
Similarly, we do not often think of funerals as times for laughter. Yet, I have known persons who have gotten uncontrollable giggles at a funeral service. When they should be sad, they are laughing.
