Got it on the second read. We lost a dear friend this way.
Yea, after I hit post, I reread my comment, and thought,
That must be the longest convoluted sentence I have written in a long time. Glad you got my thought on the second read.
In the lat 15 years I started writing theological commentaries, and a couple pf my colleagues have told me that sometimes I write like St Paul, the king of run on sentences.