Church president Thomas Monson will no longer attend regular church meetings.
This isn't a health update of course, but it's not a good sign. It's sad when we see a reminder that we will all get old one day. Watching our prophet suffer from some mental and physical decline is not a pleasant experience. From the public side, it looks like he has handled it with as much grace and class as you can expect. Sure, he doesn't run marathons every day and he might have lost a bit of fire-but he's still the prophet and will continue to be until God decides it's time.
For me, it's a reminder that this life is only a short stint in our lives. the hymn 'o my father' says it well:
ReplyDeleteFor a wise and glorious purpose
Thou hast placed me here on earth
And withheld the recollection
Of my former friends and birth;
Yet ofttimes a secret something
Whispered, "You're a stranger here,"
And I felt that I had wandered
From a more exalted sphere