There are people I know who are slipping away from this world. Their bodies are quite fine...but their minds are on a downward slope towards their very own little world, whatever that may consist of.
It is a wretchedness that only the ones watching this digression are able to feel and experience.
Those who are on the on the way down don't realize what is happening to them. It happens gradually, ever-so painstakingly slowly and before they know it, they are past the point of no return. Merciful in that they don't see it has taken place. Merciless in that this illness has ravaged their minds without asking their permission. It simply took over everything in the mind that once was, and which is no longer in it's former state.
It remains in some type of state but not the same as when we could sit and talk of life, of what happened last week, or yesterday, or an hour ago.
It saddens my heart to think of it. People whom I have known for many years have drifted off, away, to a place I cannot go. All I can do is remember them as they were. All I can do is visit them as if for the very first time in a long time and tell them again and again the answers to their repeated questions, as if they asked the question for the very first time. All I can do is love them in this moment and remember to love them again the same way in the next moment.
The mind is a marvelous piece of engineering by one creative Creator!
He and only He, is the One who walks with our loved ones when all they have left of their memory is this very minute.
May God give us all patience and love with those dear ones whose minds are being chipped and sliced away........one moment at a time.
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