the kind of funeral they want. (And by the time I am finalizing the editing of this book, one of them has passed, and I will be conducting her funeral this week.) Spending time with such people and watching them become frailer is a solemn experience. Among other things, it makes us think about our own frailty. One piece of good news in Psalm 78 is that God thinks about our frailty and makes allowance for it; God is mindful that we are flesh, “a passing wind that does not return.” When Paul talks