The story goes that while Robert Smith was taking his afternoon walk – part of his therapy in recovering from a massive heart attack – the phone rang and his wife, Delores, answered. The call was from the Reader’s Digest Association Sweepstakes in New York. They were calling to inform the Smith Family that Robert […]
In his book Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, Rabbi Harold Kushner writes about a man whose wife suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Every day she slipped further and further away in the fog of dementia – but every day he would come to spend time with her. The couple’s heartbroken friends would ask him, “Why do you keep […]
