Isn’t it encouraging to believe God has a mission for each of us, despite how often we don’t live up to our good intentions?

To live well with a dementia sufferer, you must enter their world. This is the main, but not the only, lesson I learned but actually used too slowly.

“It’s easy to stay in denial,” I admitted to him with quivering voice when he gave us the test results that day. And it’s still easy. Even easier, I’m deciding, to be in denial about being in denial.