At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
I often wondered after David__ death: Had they known something then? Did their very souls recognize each other? Did Jacob, closer to God than anyone else I knew, somehow sense this was the last time he would see his grandpa? Hadthere been a message to the little boy in David__ long-held gaze? Did these two people__he six-year-old boy and the sixty-year-old man_ realize something the rest of us didn__?
Refined By Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace
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I often wondered after David__ death: Had they known something then? Did their very souls recognize each other? Did Jacob, closer to God than anyone else I knew, somehow sense this was the last time he would see his grandpa? Hadthere been a message to the little boy in David__ long-held gaze? Did these two people__he six-year-old boy and the sixty-year-old man_ realize something the rest of us didn__?
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