Tonight I found out that Mary Barrett went to be with the Lord a week ago. She was the worship leader at Calvary Chapel Merritt Island in Florida, and she often led worship at the Pastor’s Wives retreats. I had the opportunity to hear her at the East Coast Pastor’s Wives Retreat for the first time in 1998. She had visited Indiana several times. We drove to Lafayette to hear her there, and she also came to Horizon South for an evening of worship.
She was one of those people who has a deep effect on you although you don’t know them. She had the ability to disappear while leading people in worship, so that we only saw Jesus. I’m sure her husband, her mother, her family members, and all those close to her at CC Merritt Island will miss her sorely. Her going to be with the Lord is a reminder that life is a breath, that we are truly preparing for eternity. She seems to have prepared well, and now has “entered into the joy of her Master.”
In the words of one of her songs,
“It don’t matter where they bury me,
Cause I’ll be gone, and I’ll be free.
It don’t matter where I lay,
All my tears be washed away.”
to Christ - in Christ - for Christ
