"I'm not a Humanist............that was just too black and white for me...........I trained to become a Civil Celebrant!"
That means, that if families or couples want to put an element of religion into the ceremonies I design and take, then it's absolutely fine to do so. Looking back on all the funeral services I wrote and took in 2012.........just over 65% of them had some form of religion in ........either a reading.....a prayer......or a hymn.
And their reason for doing so on many occasions?..........."Just in Case.......you never know!"
So people may choose not to have a member of the clergy standing up delivering belief systems but they may still want some comfort, peace, assurance.......or whatever we want to call it........at the very last hurdle!
Very often, I'm introduced to families as someone who takes secular, non-religious services. And for many that's appropriate and apt. Yet when I let families know that they can in fact put something spiritual or religious into the service, they seem to readily make their choices..........and 65% of the time......choose to do so!
I've said before, that I don't think the world is so black and white - that we can say whether we're either religious or not religious. I think those belief systems that go to the heart of who we are, they're much more debatable........and they swing on the pendulum every day!
But does that matter?
If we want to put something into a ceremony "Just in Case" because that's how we feel today.......doing what we're doing:.......then in my world......that's fine!
