Life is precious and fragile, but God’s grace is sufficient in every weakness. Discover hope for numbering your days. Fifty years ago, God blessed me with a friendship that has shaped how I see every day since. Betty—affectionately known to us as Maude—was the mother of a dear friend of ours. She lived with type 1 diabetes from the age of ten and was one of Eli Lilly’s original clinical trial patients for insulin. She passed from this life in 2012 at the age of ninety-one.