Daily Devotions for Caregivers

 In yesterday's post, we talked about how His grace is sufficient for us even when we feel insufficient. Of course, we get the principle from Paul's discourse with God in 2 Corinthians 12. Paul was begging God to take away what was troubling him. God did not. Instead He assured Paul that His grace was more than enough to carry Paul through his latest trials; and he had a lot  of them! As I went through the day thinking about some changes I'm making and how life is going right now, I had to keep going back to this truth. God's grace is enough for me today. He's got me right here, right now. His grace isn't going to run out today! These are things I encouraged myself with throughout the day yesterday. I kept thinking of a song we used to sing, I'm sure it's still on the radio from time to time. It's a Chris Tomlin song More than Enough.  Last night once I had a chance, I went to find the chords in one of my music notebooks. But the notebook I needed wa...

Yesterday was a rough day, rougher than usual. As caregivers, our emotions often stay on the edge and it doesn't take much to tip us off. Well, yesterday was my tipping off point. The everyday stuff for us is enough, isn't it? I mean, come on life - my mom has dementia, I am an LD caregiver for my aunt (I went to see yesterday), and I am a full-time caregiver for my adult son who is total care due to a brain injury. Too many things have happened in the last couple of days and my emotions, nerves, mind, etc. are all on edge. Why can't life just let up a little now and then? I came home from seeing my aunt in the nursing home and was a bit frazzled. My heart and mind were racing. For me, one strategy for not getting taken down in life's swifter currents is to do something different. Not work. Not my norm. I spied a briefcase I'd brought in from the garage as I've been going through my aunt's things. As I unlatched it and opened up the top to see a poem...