How are you today? You may be worried about a job, a relationship, illness, fears about aging, trouble with kids, aging parents, an old hurt, or just “the blues.” Life sometimes knocks us down. It happens to everyone. The key is to get back up and keep moving. The psalmist offers a simple formula for getting through tough times:
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After I'd been out of commission for a few months, my pastor made a passing reference to "these chronic conditions." I corrected him—my condition wasn't chronic, it was just slow to abate. Now, five years on, I still don't know what to call my dis-ease and wonder whether I will ever feel “normal” again. But my dictionary defines chronic as "persisting for a long time," and there's no denying it's been a long time.
If I resist the word "chronic," I hesitate to claim "pain" as the problem. I've told doctors often that I don't really have pain. Rather, various discomforts and malfunctions, sometimes manageable, sometimes incapacitating, have wreaked havoc with my life and expectations.
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Dear Karen,
I'd like caregiving to become a natural part of what my family does together. How can we involve our children in caregiving? How can we especially involve teenagers? - Sue
I have been discussing this questions with various individuals and following are some of my conclusions from those conversations:
