“He’d been officiating a funeral just last week—one of his congregants had died of lung cancer—and his message to the family, all of whom also smoked like chimneys, was that the man had died, not because of his four-pack-a-day habit, but because God needed him. **The family, each inhaling deeply, thanked him for his wisdom**.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[juicy-sentences]], **Source** -- [[202504161455 - B - Lessons in Chemistry]]