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Faith

A place to share your grief

May 16, 2019 | Michael Bannon

“It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart” (Ecclesiastes 7:2). What the Scripture writer is saying is that you will get more beneficial things for life at a funeral than you will at a party.