Author: Tim Challies

Wait, don’t click the “back” button! I’d like you to keep reading so I can tell you about Ronda—sweet Ronda who just went to be with Jesus. I am certain you will find yourself blessed and encouraged if you press on. Ronda was born special. She was special in the sense of being unique and dearly loved, but she was also special in the sense that she was atypical. I’m not aware that she ever received a formal diagnosis—perhaps the appropriate label didn’t exist back in the early 50s. Suffice it to say, though, that even while she lived for 75 years, her mind remained like that of an eight or ten year-old’s. She was at the same time a senior citizen and a child. Ronda came to our church’s attention about 10 years ago. By that time we got to know her, she had already outlived her parents and brother and even the trustees they had put in place. Her family had been assured that because of her physical and cognitive conditions, she could not possibly live to old age, but she proved the experts wrong. Though she now lived at a nursing home where her immediate needs were met, she had no family to love her, no friends to visit her, no carers to oversee her future. While her parents had done their utmost to provide for her, her finances were now quickly dwindling. She had no ability to know or understand such matters and no ability to do even the least thing…See AlsoA Celebration of FriendshipA Summertime Family Update (And Guess Who’s Going To Be a Grandfather!)Before You Go On the Attack

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