Florence

Florence was born in 1930. She passed from death into life about 1946. She passed from life into eternity March 3, 2013.

There’s a twinkle in her eye

In her home above the sky.

She has shed her house of clay

And has thrown the clod away.

Though it bound and held her fast,

She is freed from it at last,

And the Florence we once knew

Is alive beyond the blue.

There’s a spring now in her step.

She has humor, life, and pep.

By the earth no more confined,

No confusion clouds her mind.

Nothing’s there to cramp her style

Or to check her charming smile.

She is Florence through and through,

But with vim and vigor new.

We can bear our present pain

For the joy of Poppy’s gain,

For the life she hid with Christ

Now is hers, and amply spiced.

Things she once by faith believed

She has now in fact received.

What a glorious gift of grace!—

She beholds the Savior’s face.