Alzheimer's Victim

Life has brought us full circle again!

I want you to visualize a circle. It might be your ring, or the circle in the cross (pointing to the Celtic cross above the altar). I use the word, circle, because I feel that deep inside God's universe there is no real beginning and no real ending. There are continuous circles marked by all kinds of events, some natural, some traumatic, some glorious, and some just ordinary. Some we plan, some happen, some we memorialize. But all in all, we call them beginnings and endings by the nature of them.

Birth we call a beginning. Death we call an end. Marriage we call a beginning. Divorce we call an end.

But think about it. One event can be both a beginning and an end. Retirement. An end? Actually, retirement is an end of a certain kind of …