I attended a funeral last night. It was immersive in that half of it was performed for the deaf. I say I performed because the deaf communicate bodily, a visual pantomime transferring information, emotion, spiritual truths, music, and wisdom, all without sound. When it is done well, it is like a symphonic opera to watch. When the audience is of the deaf and hearing the event is a celestial pageant befitting the sacredness of one passing from here to eternity. This funeral was done well. It was like the deep awareness we all feel inside as divine events transpire being given physicality; a bodily recital of grief, sorrow, joy, and hope in the deceased now living forevermore. There is nothing in the hearing world to equal it, a physical liturgy of holiness worthy of God’s affairs.
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| A Greater Love by Darin Ashby |
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