When you serve vocationally in churches you end up being a part of and attending significantly more funerals than the average person would. Although funerals can be painful I’ve always been struck by how impactful it is to listen to people describe the life of another person. Eugene Peterson paraphrases Ecclesiastes 7:2 like this: “You learn more at a funeral than at a feast—after all that’s where we’ll end up. We might discover something from it.” …