We leave tomorrow morning...prayers would be appreciated, both for safety and that the song we kids are doing for the memorial service would go well and be a blessing to everyone. Here is another Easter-related quote:

"Yes, Life is the uppermost--resurrection life, radiant and joyful and strong, for we represent down here Him who liveth and was dead and is alive for evermore. Stress had to be laid in these pages on the death gateway, but a gateway is never a dwelling-place; the death-stage is never meant for our souls to stay and brood over, but to pass through with a will into the light beyond. We may and must, like the plants, bear its marks, but the should be visible to God rather than to man, for over all and through all is the inflowing, overflowing life of Jesus; oh, let us not dim it by a shadow of morbidness or of gloom; He is not a God of the dead, but a God of the living, and He would have us let the glory of His gladness shine out."
Lilias Trotter, Parables of the Cross