My Cemetary Experience

Yesterday I went to the Lakeview, Roselawn and Tiger Flowers cemetery complex for this fieldtrip, and I stayed there for at least 40 minutes. I used this experience to dig deeper in to my soul in order to understand the grieving C.S. Lewis experienced on a new, real level. I believe this field trip made me look at death in a new perspective. I had never been to a cemetery before yesterday, especially one as historical and almost creepy as that one. The cemetery was filled with gravestones from the early 1900’s and even the 1800’s. This was surprising for me. Every gravestone looked different. Through this trip I was able to look at death in a very real way. The amount of gravestones scattered throughout the cemetery were numerous. Some gravestones were large and beautiful. Some were small and had little to no engravings at all. Some were covered in flowers and decorations. Some were empty and sad. Looking at these created a very real realization that these gravestones represented people. People who were once breathing like I am now. People who had lives, souls, passions, and feelings. Theses gravestones were not just stones. Not just decorations to remember the deceased. This graveyard was overflowing with people whose lives ended, just like my life will one day. As depressing as this thought is, it almost gives me a sense of peace. Knowing that one day I will eventually die, leave this earth, and travel “alone, into the alone,” I am satisfied with the thought that I will soon be with my savior. I will eventually leave a memory, a grave, this body, behind and travel into the alone with God. That is the place my heart yearns for. As upsetting as leaving the only life I’ve ever known may be, I look forward to spending eternity with my king.