I was honored recently to share at the funeral service for a dear lady at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.  Selena was born in 1927.  She lived during a challenging time in our history, as a teenager in World War 2 and as a registered nurse throughout the Civil Rights Movement years.  As I sat in the packed auditorium of the church where she had faithfully served as a member and teacher for decades, I contemplated how her world changed in that lifetime.  People told stories of how Selena had touched their lives in profound ways.  And I learned so much I had never known about her.  She and her sister have been a part of our Community Bible Class for the past 20 years.  Just a month before her homegoing, she stopped me for clarification.  "Now, when I am teaching this to my class, I want to get it right...."  May I finish my race still learning and growing like that.