Tender Mercies: “Isadore’s Secret” – by Ruth A. Tucker

Bless the Lord who crowns you with tender mercies (Psalm 103, NKJV).      When we contemplate love and care and tender mercies bestowed upon another, we usually imagine the person to be alive.  But throughout history—particularly among Christians—there has been special care accorded the dead.  Jesus' body was perfumed with spices and laid to rest in a tomb set aside for burial.  Generations later Christians stayed behind in Alexandria during a pandemic to nurse the sick and bury the dead.  Pagans, fearing for their own lives, had abandoned family members—the dying and the dead.   &nb...