This is more of a personal post than it is a pastoral post so please bear with me. Over the past week, I took the opportunity to travel to Iowa to visit my mother whom was recently moved into a memory care facility. A little background...My father passed away in 2018 leaving my mother by herself. She continued to live on her own, in the house that my parents had called home since 2000. That year (2000), my parents sold the house that I had grown up in and realized their dream