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"We have some wonderful memories," I said as Brother Art lay on his deathbed. "Yes, some wonderful memories," he replied, almost as if singing.
Brother Art and I had lived together in community for a number of years and had shared our ups and downs. It was time now to savor the past, for it had been grace, and it brought comfort as life was draining from him. And of course I prayed with him as he looked to his imminent future with the Lord.
St. Paul did something similar as he sat chained in prison in the shadow of the Roman sword that would one day behead him. He savored his memories and shared them with his closest friends and associates, especially Timothy, whom he called his beloved child (2 Timothy 1:2). But he did more than that. He looked to the future—his own with Christ and that of the church he was leaving on earth.
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