I have a question for you this morning: who are some people who have had a lasting, positive influence on your life? Whose character or actions have inspired you to be a better person? I hope we all have someone we can point to who inspired us to become the person we are today.

In our Maundy Thursday sermon last month, I told of two sisters who had tattoos honoring their father. There is another story of sisters, named Anna Harp and Abrielle Clausing, who have matching messages tattooed on their skin. The message is: “It has been such a good life.” Those were the last words of their father Rudolph Clausing, who died of COVID-19 in January, 2021. Due to quarantine restrictions, the sisters could not visit him in the hospital in his last days. After his death, his last message to his family…