Johnes recalled their last telephone conversation. “She sounded timorous, wavering and very weak but assured me that she was fine, even though her back troubles were still painful. Conversation was difficult. She said that she hadn’t watched any television for months, preferring to go to bed early and read her Bible.” He sent her a bouquet of spring flowers, mostly yellow rosebuds. “There’s nothing presented to us that we cannot cope with,” Joan had written to a friend in crisis years earlier. “There is a Power much greater than any one of us, Who created us and Who continues to give us
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