Update on Aunt Jeanette

The family was advised on Tuesday to give Aunt Jeanette's body at least 48 hours to attempt to heal itself. This was done. However, there had been no change in brain wave activity or heart beat in that amount of time. It was decided yesterday evening about 8:00 pm to take her off the respirator. She was given a morphine drip to stop any pain and some sort of IV with fluids and substance to stop her from starving to death. She stayed in that state for 11 and a half hours. Surrounded by many in her earthly famiy, Jeanette Chandler drifted from this earth and was welcomed home by her eternal family today at 7:30 am.




I grieve not for her loss but for my grandmother's, my uncle's, my mom and her siblings, my sister, my cousins and myself. I grieve for the great nieces and nephews that will not know her here on this earth. But I rejoice in her victory. I rejoice that she is with my unlce Bill whom she has seen in over fifteen years. I rejoice because she will be reunited with many others she loved that have gone on before her. I rejoice in the fact she will meet new people in my great cloud of witness that she did not know here on this earth and be reunited with those she did-Shannon, Uncle Bill, Uncle Wilson, Aunt Evelyn, Stacy, Nathan, Aunt Elsie, Papa Cearly, Grandma Leer, Popkins. I rejoice because she ran "with perseverance the race marked out for" her and in that running she touched many lives. I am blessed to have known Jeanette Chandler. And now, throwing "off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles" me, I will continue to "run with perseverance the race marked out for" me while fixing my on "eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of [my] faith..." (Hebrews 12:1,2) so that one day, when the victory over death is mine (1 Corinthians 15:54), I will be reunited with my Aunt Jeanette as my Father welcomes me home.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and lifting my family up in prayer as we grieve our loss. Our pain is made easier to handle knowing our names are being placed at the Father's feet.