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Caring for Parents - Spring 2021

Dear Caregivers~

The work you do caring for your aging parents is holy work. It is also hard work made harder by the pandemic. And still you do it.

Caring for Parents - Winter 2021

Dear Caregivers~

This week our Lenten journey takes us “deep in the woods: called to deep commitment.” One of the spiritual practices we are invited to is to look in our photo albums for pictures of paths, or pictures that reflect when we were invited to a new path. This picture is from my time in Ohio.

 

Caring for Parents - December 2020

Merry Christmas Caregivers!

However similar or different it may have been, I hope that you had a Christmas filled with love, joy, and even some laughter. 

Caring for Parents - November 2020

Dear Caregivers~

I just finished reading Jann Arden’s memoir Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss in which she shares part of her journey into caregiving for both of her parents, who happen to live across the street.

Caring for Parents - August 2020

Dear Caregivers~

How is it the end of August already? It felt like I just planted my garden and now I’m pulling plants that didn’t produce and harvesting from those that did.

Caring for Parents - June 2020

Dear Caregivers~

I hope and pray that you have found moments of joy and renewal amidst the work of learning how to be a caregiver in the face of a pandemic. 

Caring for Parents - May 2020

Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
~Isaiah 40:30-31

 

 

Caring for Parents - April 2020

Dear Caregivers~

While this email still comes just once-a-month, know that these days you are in my thoughts and prayers often.

Caring for Parents - February 2020

Dear Caregivers,

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. In many Christian traditions, followers are marked with ashes as they hear the words, “from dust you came and to dust you shall return.” It is a day of remembering that we are human.  We are finite creatures. We face boundaries and limits.