“A segment of our society desperately yearning for an
expression of true love is found among those growing older, and particularly
when they suffer from pangs of loneliness. . . . [Elder Richard L. Evans said
of the aging:] ‘What they need in the loneliness of their older years is, in
part at least, what we needed in the uncertain years of our youth: a sense of
belonging, an assurance of being wanted, and the kindly ministrations of loving
hearts and hands; not merely dutiful formality, not merely a room in a
building, but room in someone’s heart and life. . . . We cannot bring them back the morning hours
of youth. But we can help them live in the warm glow of a sunset made more
beautiful by our thoughtfulness, but our provision, and by our active and unfeigned
love.’”
Thomas S. Monson, “Gifts,” Ensign, May 1993, 61, 62.
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