What smells good?
'Perhaps two dozen different women helped my mother in those last days. They were gentle and sensitive, speaking softly and with great care. Several of them, it turned out, were motivated by past experience of caring for their own, terminally ill relatives.
On the last full day of my mother's life, I noticed that the eyes of one nurse, Sue, were welling with tears. She had been watching me talk to my mother and had, I think, been reminded of her own farewell to her father. When she said goodbye to me, she said something I shall never forget. "Thank you for letting me in."
I never asked what any of these remarkable people are paid, but I don't imagine it's very much. And yet they do work that is tough, exhausting and priceless. I know the explanation for that paradox but, in truth, it is inexplicable.'
Peter needed a working over before he could smell what God was smelling. The community in Philippi got a gentle reminder. Which do I need?
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