Do you ever think about lonely old people?

Your life is exciting now. You have friends, family, useful work.

But what about all the older people who no longer can work, or have to take menial jobs, whose friends have died, who the family sees maybe once a year?

My grandma is 99 and she doesn't want to bother anyone. I imagine she spends about 98% of her time alone. She loves to watch Charles Stanley's sermons on TV. She loves to play dominoes with us when we visit. She still shovels snow off her porch. But she's very independent and strong willed.

We have a good friend who is in her 60's and many of her friends are dying. She's suicidal. I'm praying for her. Please pray for her also.

We don't consciously reject these people- we just accidentally ignore them because we're selfishly pursuing our own fun, and because we fearfully anxiously cannot leave our work.

The American dream and nuclear family has created a huge class of disenfranchised older family- and they'er the luckier ones, because the unmarried older people without kids are even more cut off.