Caregiving Basic: Pray
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.
Caregiving Basic: Pray
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How can one make the Advent season and Christmas a joy-filled meaningful celebration when one is alone and lonely?
How can one make the Advent season and Christmas a joy-filled meaningful celebration when one is alone and lonely?
I like the answer which Barbara Baumgardner, gives us in her story, “The Aroma of Christmas.”
The first Christmas after my husband died was filled with forced laughter, fake smiles and trying desperately to have a good time.
Twelve months later healing was evidenced by the excitement welling up with me as I prepared for a grand and glorious holiday. The kids and grandchildren were coming to spend Christmas at my home.
Pass It On
Pass It On
By Sarah Gill-Northcutt It had been a year since my 18 month-old granddaughter Katie died of a birth defect, and I...
How To Help A Lonely Person
How To Help A Lonely Person
Two are better than one, for if one falls down, the other will help him up. But pity the person who falls and has...
It’s Fun
It’s Fun
Do you want to have some fun today? Then plan a “Random act of Kindness.” You know – the act of kindness you do for someone, especially someone who is suffering, but you don’t let them know who you are. For example:
◾Leave bags of groceries on the porch of a family where there is an unemployed person.
◾Leave a bouquet of flowers on the porch of someone who is grieving.
◾Send a single mom some movie tickets or bowling coupons.
Send Those Cards
Send Those Cards
Have you ever hesitated to send an ailing friend a get-well card? Maybe you thought they had enough going on, the...
Caring Friends
Caring Friends
Remember Job was a brokenhearted father and husband, wracked with disease and doubt and grief. His friends heard about his troubles and set out to go and console and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him and they raised their voices and wept aloud. They tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads. They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.” (Job 2:11-13). His friends were there with him. They sat with him. They did not speak a word for seven days. Wow! To be that kind of care giving friend!
