Opinion: What makes a life worth living?
G. Scott Morris
The Rev. Dr. G. Scott Morris, M.D., is founder of Church Health. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Memphian.
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A few weeks ago, my 93-year-old father died.
Ninety-three is a long life — long enough to gather contradictions as well as accomplishments, tenderness alongside rigidity, wisdom mixed with blind spots.
Long enough for relationships, especially between a father and a son, to be layered, unfinished and sometimes unresolved.
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