Caregiver and/or Comforter?

I am prompted to share a few more thoughts (not intended to be exhaustive) about care-giving.

Almost immediately after posting my most recent blog I received numerous calls and  forty e-mails with a plethora of comments. The comments ranged from “bless you” to “If people only knew”.

Now I am more intrigued than ever. I thought that I had learned much of what caregivers have been going through. Wrong again! I haven’t even scratched the surface of learning of the incredible numbers of tasks of those called to the duty of care-giving.

I am now committed to doing research in an effort to learn more about the challenges so that my findings may be able to offer some comfort to the caregiver.

The demands on the caregiver are endless. I remember sitting with my father when he passed away. Later, I was there when my mother left this life. Over the years, I have been with countless families during periods of grief. I wasn’t the caregiver, I was there to bring comfort…. and there is a difference.

May God bless you today as you care for an ailing mother, wife, husband or child. It is a special calling and I promise God will give you strength. I know! I am walking it with you.

I will address this subject again in subsequent posts.

If you have been there….if you are there now…..let me know……

I don’t want you to be alone.

In the Bonds of Calvary,