One afternoon, I pushed the button to replay my phone messages and was shocked to hear a young angry voice say, “Shame on you! How can you call yourself a Christian woman and do what you are doing! You should be ashamed at yourself.” I wondered what I had been doing that earned these angry, slanderous words. As he proceeded, I found out. He said, “You talked my mom into getting a divorce. How could you? I’m not going to allow you to put my dad down! I won’t stand for it.”
Kim Hamer says, "What a person needs when going through a crisis is a witness. They need someone to acknowledge the fact that what they are going through is very difficult. Their life is crappy. They need you to be their witness."
What do you say when someone is crying? You could say:
By Chic Broersma A little girl on an errand for her mother took too long in getting back. “Why?” Mom asked. The...
A story which I heard 11 years ago reminds me of a powerful way to care for people who are hurting. Gregory Richards was a chaplain to terminally ill children in a New York hospital. He tells of one of his experiences in the following story:
How can we honor our veterans on Veterans Day and every day? My daughter-in-law, Jeri, has a compassionate heart...
From: The Power of the Pause Nothing can be more useful to a person than a determination not to be hurried. -...
One of the most important and helpful guideline for effective caregiving is to pray. To pray is to acknowledge the presence of God. To pray is to connect with God; so that God can empower us.
We sometimes need a reminder to keep praying for those who need us. I'm a big believer that God nudges us to care...
