Wisdom from Clara - my elderly prayer partner who happens to be legally blind and virtually lame but who sees beyond this world and scales mountains with her prayers:
"Close relatives
especially as they grow old can be especially difficult. I
remember taking a class taught by Tony Campolo at Eastern. He said that
some older people become very difficult because in the background they envision
that soon death will come like a discordant note over and over again in a
symphony. If a person is fighting death, chances are that they are
fighting everyone else. They want desperately to live. The oddity is
that they often deprive younger people of the joy of living.
Although I
still miss my mother terribly, it was such a blessing when she said to me a few
days before she died, 'I have absolutely no fear of death. Jesus is my God
and my all!' As for some elderly people, I'm sure that they are angry and feel as though they are no longer
in control. The truth is that we never are. We are blessed if we can
lay all our problems at the foot of the Cross."
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