Both my paternal grandfather and my maternal grandmother have recently experienced the deaths of elderly family members that were living with them.  They are now both living alone and have only one child each still alive.  I live many miles away from them.

They are suffering in their own way, both have suffered the deaths of their children and siblings over the years.  Neither of them are practicing Christians.  My grandfather was never baptized.  Except for a brief period in his childhood when his mother took he and his brother to the Christian Science meetings...he has had absolutely no religion in his life at all.

My grandmother was born and raised in a schismatic church.  It has always been on the surface for her, more social and familial than actual living faith.

Both of them are 93, and it's the strangest thing that both seem surprised and unprepared for these losses and in particular because of lives lived without Faith, they seem adrift and not knowing how to process this.  Not only the deaths ...which they have endured before ... but now both are alone in their houses with no distractions, ultimately facing their own deaths.

They live thousands of miles apart ... so they can't visit each other ... and I live very far from both of them.  My grandmother has her son who lives next door to her.  My grandfather has his daughter who lives about an hour from him.

Anyway.  It's really hard to talk to them when there is no precedence set for talking about Faith and all of that. I'm also very careful because I am a grandchild and not a peer and I don't want to cross boundaries...and they both have very strong boundaries.  

I'm praying for them and for all our deceased family members and am asking for prayers for Grandpa A. and Grandma G. that they might come to knowledge of Christ and be able to die good and holy deaths before it's too late.


Thank you.