All Saints Day by Kandinsky

I totally love All Saints Day.  It could be because it’s the theme of one of the greatest hymns of all times .  It could also be connected to my personal obsession with the dead after sitting with many people on the cusp of eternity as they breathed their last  breath.

 

I love the name of Nadia Bolz-Weber’s congregation  which is perhaps the perfect church name.

 

I love remembering friends and strangers who have died since last All Saints’ Day.  Their names and faces come to me often in this season. 

 

I love reading well written eulogies.  Mona Simpson did her brother proud.

 

I love the way The Washington Post subtitles their obits.  From Monday’s paper, we could read about William Randolph Sengal – Alexandria Pastor and Virginia Conn – Writer and Editor.   One of my all time favorites was: Marie Raabe –  Munchkin Wife.  The obit went on to explain that “Marie was survived by her husband Meinhardt Raabe – best known as the coroner in the Wizard of Oz who declared that the Wicked Witch of the East ‘was not merely dead but was really most sincerely dead.‘ ” 

 

I love remembering the saints.