Far Be It from Me to Sin by Not Praying for You

Far Be it from Me to Sin by Not Praying for You
1 Samuel 11: 14- 12: 25

The day of my wife’s memorial service was also the day I received the page proofs for a writing project. Someone who was reading those proofs, when he heard that Ann had died after living with multiple sclerosis for many years, wondered whether she had committed herself to staying with me to the completion of the project but now felt able to say her Nunc Dimittis: “Now, Lord, you let your servant go in peace.” There had been four or five times when Ann had had pneumonia and I had been assured that she was about to die, but she had declined to do so. This time she did. Another friend commented more generally on the way people who are seriously ill and unable to speak (even facing death), as Ann was, can have the capacity (along with God) to determine that “now is not the time.” It is as if there is a job to be done, and they stay to do it..