I’m the master of ‘oops’. Any who have heard me preach or who have read this blog know that I frequently make blunders which for some reason I do not catch.
But some ‘oops’ are bigger than others.
My wife told me this morning that a few days ago, the local newspaper ran an obituary of a young man who, the paper reported, “went home to be with the Lord unrepentantly”.
Wow. Apart from the theological musings which that raises, that is a harsh thing to put into an obituary. But there it was.
Apparently it was an ‘oops’. A whopping big ‘oops’.
This morning the same obit ran. The same, but different. Today we read that ‘he went home to be with the Lord unexpectedly’.
Like I said. Oops.
TulipGirl
Twice I’ve come back to read this, and laughed.
Randy Greenwald
It’s funny from a copy editing point of view. But I shudder to think of the horror of the parents of this young man reading that in the paper as they struggle with the other elements of grief. I laugh and shudder at the same time.