Saints With Dementia
God is glorified by the way dementia provides us with an opportunity to critique some of our basic assumptions and values. All too often, we attribute too much value to our own intelligence and functional capacities. God does not value us the way we do. He sees our value rooted in nothing less than our being made in his image and redeemed by Christ. As we overvalue our own abilities, we also undervalue other humans made in God’s image who do not possess those capacities. In consequence, are we not undervaluing the very one in whose image they were made? God forbid!