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Karen Gavin
May 29, 2024
I think about Paul every week in May. He is missed by many.
Paul Geissler
July 2, 2017
Comfort for Those Who Mourn
So many people imagine that death cruelly separates us from our loved ones. Even pious people are led to believe this great and sad mistake. When our loved ones die, they do not leave us. They remain. They do not go to some dark and distant place. They simply begin their eternity. We do not see them because we are still in the darkness of the world. But their spiritual eyes, filled with the light of heaven, are always watching us as they wait for the day when we shall share their perfect joy. We are all born for heaven and one by one we end this life of tears to begin our life of love in endless happiness.
I have often reflected upon this beautiful truth and found it the greatest and surest comfort in time of mourning. A firm faith in the real and continual presence of our loved ones has brought the conviction and consolation that death has not destroyed them, nor carried them away. Rather it has given them life! A life with power to know fully and to love perfectly! With this new life and new power our loved ones are always present to us, knowing and loving us more than ever before.
The tears that dampen eyes in time of mourning are tears of homesickness, tears of longing for our loved ones. But it is we who are away from home, not they. Death has been for them a doorway to an eternal home. And only because this heavenly home is invisible to our worldly eyes, we cannot see them so near us. Yet, they are with us, lovingly and tenderly waiting for the day when we, too, will enter the doorway of our eternal home.
No death is a separation. It is a preparation for eternal union with those we love, in the peace and joy of heaven.
From a fellow Regian, Class of '49
Sarah Earles
June 16, 2017
Sandy, I will always remember the laughter and kindness that you both showed me. I will be thinking of you and your 'Peanut.' Sarah (Dunham) Earles
Michael Ryan
June 11, 2017
Sandy, please accept my deepest condolences. I'll remember Paul always as a gentleman, with a generous and caring nature. I'm so glad that Paul and my dad, Kevin, were good friends who were blessed to be part of each other's lives. May you soon be filled with memories of joyful times together as you celebrate a life well lived. Also, those were good times at dinner with you, Paul and my mom in Florida, and it was so kind of you and Paul to invite us.
June 9, 2017
May his memories live on in the hearts and prayers of love ones bringing comfort as he R.I.P
Tom & Karen Gavin
June 4, 2017
Paul, we will miss your smiling face, your dry humor, and your kind and helpful attitude to all. You will make heaven a better place. Until we meet again...
❤ Tom & Karen
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