Celebration

The first celebration for Carol is planned for Saturday (7/12) at First Baptist Church, 300 S. Davidson Street, Charlotte, NC.

The Family will receive guests 1:00 - 3:00 PM
The Celebration will be at 3:00 PM

We are planning another celebration in Lansing, Michigan, at which time her body will not be present, having been buried earlier.

In preparation for the celebration I was reviewing some material that Carol and I had worked on and found the following notation from Carol which I thought appropriate to pass along:

"Etta Shuber, in her 1943 volume Paris Underground, told how she and a Parisian friend worked for two years smuggling downed British airmen out of Naxi-occupied France. She told how the Germans had sealed the borders, not letting anyone leave the country. But in one little French town straddling the border, the population kept dwindling."

"Some of the citizens in that little village had remembered that at the back of the town's cemetery was an old gate in the wall that had been sealed for a hundred years. They opened up the gate, and thereafter, when they went to the cemetery for a funeral, they would just keep walking right on through the back gate into the land of freedom and sunshine."

"When I read that, all the bells went off. I realized that this is what Jesus accomplished for me by His death, burial, and resurrection. He opened a gate on the back side of the cemetery. We still go to funerals and graveyards, but we don't stick around. We go right out the back side into the land of freedom and life and sunshine."

Last night, Carol entered that land of freedom, life and sunshine. She is greatly missed!

Love,

Chuck