“My dear people, since God has loved us so much, we too should love one another” (I John 4:11).
In a book called “The Grand Essentials,” the author says…
I believe that when life has whittled us down, when joints have failed and skin has wrinkled, and capillaries have clogged and hardened, what is left of us will be what we were all along — in our essence, in our inner-spirit.
Exhibit “A” is a distant uncle. All his life he did nothing but find new ways to make himself richer. He spent his twilight years drooling and babbling constantly about the money he had made. When life whittled him down to his essence all that was left was raw greed. This is what he had cultivated in a thousand ways over a lifetime of self-service.
Exhibit “B” is my wife’s grandmother. What did she talk about in her twilight years? The best examples I can think of are those occasions when she was…
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