It so happened that people had been dying at such a rapid pace — they were long past their Biblical lifespan — that our preacher was getting behind in farming and all his goodwill visits. So many funerals, you see.This also happened to collide with my thinking on the money we sent away to missions in other places and asking myself what were we doing to help our neighbors and the folks closeby. This was worrying me.
Ronda Rich: When nursing homes turn out to be not that sleepy