Blessings, peace and hello to Nancy's family.  It has been quite a few years since I moved away from Ayr and out of touch.  My memories of Nancy span a good number of years and touch on so many aspects of living in community with Nancy as a neighbour, sharing the growing up years of children, and benefiting from countless hours of volunteer work both from and with Nancy...church, preschool, the Townline school and more.  Whenever I think of Nancy I recall long late-into-the-evening driveway conversations after a meeting...gosh that is back over thirty years ago now.  I learned so much from her.  Nancy was the most encouraging person I know.  She invested so much of herself into creating better for others and helping us to be courageous in finding and expressing our gifts, talents and better selves.  I am thankful that Nancy journeyed with me as a I discerned vocation and call.  I am sad that Nancy has died, happy that I have memories to treasure, feel the pain of the many who loved her, and thankfulness that after so many years of persistent struggle and the will to overcome all the adversity of illness and still maintain a focus beyond the insidiousness of the health challenges she faced, that Nancy is free and at peace.  She is ever with us in memory, her vast capacity for love and commitment to family, friends and community carries on as the legacy of real change for the better...we live from her example, her faith, and her remarkably optimistic outlook.  I am not so certain that Nancy cared for self as much as she invested in caring for others, but we can all learn from that as well, and in the end we experienced her exactly as she was.  God in Spirit bears her and us up and we can be at peace in that knowledge.  Hugs.  Sally.