There was a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer
and had been given 3 months to live. Her doctor told
her to start making preparations to die (something we
all should be doing all of the time.)
So she contacted her pastor and had him come to her
house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes.
She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service,
what scriptures she would like read, and what she wanted
to be wearing.
The woman also told her pastor that she wanted to be
buried with her favorite Bible. Everything was in order
and the pastor was preparing to leave when the woman
suddenly remembered something very important to her.
"There's one more thing." She said excitedly.
"What's that?" came the pastor's reply.
"This is very important," the woman continued. "I want
to be buried with a fork in my right hand."
The pastor stood looking at the woman not knowing quite
what to say.
"That shocks you, doesn't it?" the woman asked.
"Well, to be honest, I'm puzzled by the request," said
the pastor.
The woman explained. "In all my years of attending church
socials and functions where food was involved (and let's
be honest, food is an important part of any church event;
spiritual or otherwise); my favorite part was when whoever
was clearing away the dishes of the main course would lean
over and say 'You can keep your fork.' It was my favorite
part because I knew that something better was coming. When
they told me to keep my fork I knew that something great
was about to be given to me. It wasn't Jell-O or pudding.
It was cake or pie. Something with substance.
"So I just want people to see me there in that casket with
a fork in my hand and I want them to wonder 'What's with
the fork?' Then I want you to tell them: 'Something better
is coming so keep your fork, too.'"
The pastor's eyes were welled up with tears of joy as he
hugged the woman goodbye. He knew this would be one of the
last times he would see her before her death. But he also
knew that that woman had a better grasp of heaven than he
did. She KNEW that something better was coming.
At the funeral people were walking by the woman's casket and
they saw the pretty dress she was wearing and her favorite
Bible and the fork placed in her right hand. Over and over
the pastor heard the question "What's with the fork?" And over
and over he smiled.
During his message the pastor told the people of the
conversation he had with the woman shortly before she died.
He also told them about the fork and about what it symbolized
to her. The pastor told the people how he could not stop
thinking about the fork and told them that they probably would
not be able to stop thinking about it either..He was right.
So the next time you reach down for your fork, let it remind
you, oh so gently, that there is something better coming.
--Author Unknown
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