By way of refreshing the thread, I'm pasting here a PM I just sent in response to someone who sent me an item for this, to be lent.

~S~

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Thanks, [name]. Yes, that item HAS brought some peace, and we have a new Deacon who will be able to direct it to even more people.

Whenever I lend an item like this, some of the benefit is that even if the recipient never uses it, they and/or the family know that it is there and that we cared enough to think to leave it for them... I'm thinking now of one dearly-loved parishioner who had one.... I don't know if he used the player or not, because that's part of something I think he didn't want to talk about. Part of lending them is to not ask, though of course I'm dying to know.... I always figure that if they want to talk, they'll let me know.

Every time I lend one of these it makes me think of all the nice things people have done for ME that I didn't really thank them for at the time. This crazy life!

~Susan