Description A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to A Funeral may seem inappropriate as the title of a book that talks about deaths and burials.
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to A Funeral, therefore, seemed most appropriate as a title..
Moods and happenings have run the gamut from: pious to secular; heart-breaking to Funny bone-tickling; sublime to ridiculous; holy to irreverent.
I discovered this pattern applied in ministering to those who were genuinely grieved as well as to those, to put it nicely, "less emotionally stressed"; of whom there are many.
On fifth Sundays I went hungry And to keep things interesting, though the churches were in the same Alabama county, one operated on central time and the other on eastern.
One met on first and third Sundays, the other on second and fourth Sundays.
They referred to me as their pastor, but I was more like what the Air National Guard calls a "week-end warrior." I was a college student in Birmingham, the churches were 120 miles away in Chambers County, and I had no car when the first one called me.
Though a Baptist, I began like a Methodist serving a circuit of two rural churches.
My experience across more than sixty years of ministry has included all three uses, and that fact began early.
And there are times when a Thing is simultaneously funny/ha ha and funny/odd.
SomeThing may be funny/ha-ha--amusing, humorous or funny/odd--unusual, out of the ordinary, even weird.
Funny is one of those words.
But as a former teacher astutely observed, words have uses rather than meanings.
Description A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to A Funeral may seem inappropriate as the title of a book that talks about deaths and burials
