My father's father was a burglar in World War I and served in the trenches for two years.  He came back home very mentally ill and lived on the street in Quebec for the rest of his life.  My dad's mother raised my father alone.  When she was close to death, she gave me the only thing she had from her childhood, a cherished possession.  In doing so, she taught me a lesson that we see in Paul's writings and in the words of Jesus.