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Deathbed Speeches and Uneven Blessings. Deuteronomy 33.

In the spring of 1985, our family of four drove to Baton Rouge to see my grandfather one last time. The man was born in a house in the woods in 1897, and doctors said he had little time left. After nearly a fifty-year career in the world’s largest oil refinery, the emphysema had takenContinue reading “Deathbed Speeches and Uneven Blessings. Deuteronomy 33.”

Famous Last Words.

In the spring of 1985, Willie Wales was dying. A child of another century, he was born in 1897. Now he was 88 and nearly bedridden. He picked up emphysema during a 40-year career at ESSO Baton Rouge, the world’s largest oil refinery. The lung disease wrecked his health. We went to visit. I wasContinue reading “Famous Last Words.”