As need increases may the task be lightened with assurances and affirmations.
May nurturing intuition guide your choices and deeds yielding fruitful days of interaction with and on behalf of the one receiving care.
With wisdom and trust, may you record the gifts of each day as reminders of personal blessings shared and received through caregiving.
May "gracious thankfulness" for mutual life be your watchword, enjoying the special quality of each days passing and sharing life's stories with one another.
And as the tension builds and heartaches strain, may your physical presence during daily struggles express with eloquent understatement the mystery of divine omnipresence.
May the depth of relationship be always reminding to care for yourself, for in being there is responsibility first to self and secondly for the other.
Without anticipation, but in confident knowledge that new phases of life will come, may existence beyond the impending struggles gather gentleness around your own needy heart.
May the breezes of new days speak your name with the spirit voice of your loved one reminding you that for a time your name was called and you were chosen to be that special someone in the fragility of life.
And finally, may this bring the hope and promise needed to sustain you now and in the days of warmest remembrances.
May nurturing intuition guide your choices and deeds yielding fruitful days of interaction with and on behalf of the one receiving care.
With wisdom and trust, may you record the gifts of each day as reminders of personal blessings shared and received through caregiving.
May "gracious thankfulness" for mutual life be your watchword, enjoying the special quality of each days passing and sharing life's stories with one another.
And as the tension builds and heartaches strain, may your physical presence during daily struggles express with eloquent understatement the mystery of divine omnipresence.
May the depth of relationship be always reminding to care for yourself, for in being there is responsibility first to self and secondly for the other.
Without anticipation, but in confident knowledge that new phases of life will come, may existence beyond the impending struggles gather gentleness around your own needy heart.
May the breezes of new days speak your name with the spirit voice of your loved one reminding you that for a time your name was called and you were chosen to be that special someone in the fragility of life.
And finally, may this bring the hope and promise needed to sustain you now and in the days of warmest remembrances.
5 comments:
this pulls at the heartstrings deep. and you even remembered to 'care for yourself before the other'. yet i see you totally in support of the other too... wow!
I am filled with tears, Larry. This moved me so, as I care for my parents! You have touched the spirit and essence of caregiving so poetically. Not an easy thing to do!
absolutely lovely LarryG.
you amaze me sometimes ...
oh, thank you so much, I had to take care of my mom during her last few years with us and though it was difficult, and sometimes almost unbearable, I was able to do so without making her feel as though she was a burden. I am grateful for that and grateful for you sharing this blessing, if you don't mind i am going to send it to a friend of mine who is in this position with her son right now. thank you Larry, for sharing your gift with us.
This is very touching...pulls on the heart strings.
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