{"id":2842,"date":"2019-02-25T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:12:19","slug":"tribute-to-carole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2842","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Carole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We knew at the beginning of this year when everyone was wishing everyone a happy new year, that for some it would be the saddest year of their lives. And so it has proved to be. A beloved wife, mother, grandmother \u00a0and great-grandmother has succumbed to the dread disease of cancer, a vicious form of leukaemia. Not only those relationships, but that of sister-in-law, and more than that, a good friend and work mate as well. We worked together and played together through our farming days.<\/p>\n

It couldn\u2019t have been easy for Carole when she married Neville and came into the Frear family. A city girl, who barely knew one end of a cow from the other, but prepared to take on this guy from the country. She was only \u201cfive foot blinky-nothing\u201d as her father-in-law described her, but over the years she proved she had what it took to fit into the family.<\/p>\n

After \u00a0their wedding day in May 1962, she became a farmer\u2019s wife and learned to milk cows, and later on to muster cattle and then to sort them in the stockyards. The men could never learn the quickest way to sort the cattle in the pens, but Carole knew.<\/p>\n

They had a runabout boat that gave them many happy days on the water, joining the other brothers and families in their boats, water ski-ing and just generally enjoying the boating scene. Later on, they bought a yacht, and ventured up and down the coast at times, taking others with them.<\/p>\n

They would put in a full day\u2019s work on the farm, milk the cows at night and then go off to the golf course over the road, and have a round of golf after everyone else had gone home. Carole beat everyone hands down at hitting the ball, she was just a natural hand at it!<\/p>\n

There were the days out at the run-off farms mustering the cattle from those steep hills. Then the days on their next farm up in the hills, planting the big garden of different sorts of vegetables on the river flat there. To say nothing of working together at haymaking time\u2026the women on the tractors, with Carole doing the tedder work, while the men picked up and loaded the hay into the barns.<\/p>\n

Another thing that Carole excelled at was remodelling inside her houses. She did that at least three times, turning cramped living spaces into more roomy areas. The Christmas Days that all would gather together with the extended family joining in.<\/p>\n

But that is only one side of the Carole that we knew. She had a deep faith in God which has stood her in good stead over the years, and seen her take these last few months with great peace of mind, knowing what was ahead for her. When she was a teenager, she had attended some girls\u2019 camps and first heard there the Gospel story and made the decision which shaped her life from then on. She never wavered from this faith in God and helped run the local Girl\u2019s camp for forty or so years, eventually taking the leadership over. This wasn\u2019t the only Christian work that Carole was involved in, but she did Bible in Schools as well, teaching this for fifty years. In fact she was on her way to a class that fateful day when the doctor called her and said she would have to stop immediately due to what they had just seen in her blood tests.<\/p>\n

Carole had many talents, one of which was icing cakes, to say nothing of baking them. No-one ever needed to feel embarrassed at arriving at Carole\u2019s place at lunch time, because nothing ever put her out, and there was always plenty in the pantry. There didn\u2019t seem to be anything that Carole couldn\u2019t do and she was always involved in all the family\u2019s doings, especially once the grandchildren started to arrive.<\/p>\n

This, then, was the lady that we all knew and loved and she will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n

Do Not Mourn !<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>I did not know the way I\u2019d go,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If short and fast, or pain so slow,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I prayed the Lord would help me bear,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Whate\u2019er He planned for me\u00a0while there;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And now I\u2019ve gone, I do not need,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A fanfare of my word or deed;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0All I say is simply this,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m with the LORD, in heav\u2019ns bliss.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So my loved ones, no need to mourn,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Or feel bereft or all forlorn,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019ll be some things I\u2019ve left behind,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Things lying round, you will\u00a0 find,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But I\u2019ve had fun, enjoyed it all;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And now I\u2019ve heard my Lord\u2019s sweet call.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m more alive than e\u2019er before,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Enjoying life NOW, more and more !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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