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Yet thereafter, his person and work had such an impact on me that his sudden death stirred me as if it were the death of one of my closest friends. For ministers are called to recognize the sufferings of their time in their own hearts and to make that recognition the starting point of their service. The elderly are our prophets. They remind us that what we see so clearly in them is a process in which we all share. Grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren - they all make the whole of our life cycle visible and tangible to us at every moment of our lives.