Death After a Stroke

The meditation text is Psalm 71:6: "Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of thee."

The elderly often impress us with two qualities seldom found among the young: trust and simplicity. These characteristics are almost always the exclusive gift of the aged, for they alone have spent their lifetime learning how to combine the two into a style of living.

In the many years we've known each other, I've never known ___________ to complain or doubt. Things were as they were, and that was that. When she could scarcely eat after her first attack, she didn't give up like many do. She trusted. Her nursing home environment was plain, almost to the point of stark. She lived simply. She didn't even complain that sh…