No Greater Comfort

He sat quietly in the cave. No sound or movement came from him. He had the look on his face of an old man reminiscing of long ago. He was thinking of back then, but they were not happy thoughts. They were thoughts that left scars on his tender heart. Joey had lost his mother when his was very young. The very example of Christian love had been taken from him, it seemed, when he had needed that love the most. His father, not able to cope with the death of a wife he had loved, had turned bitter...