Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: July 14, 2009
This is a third article of four that focuses on caregivers. You may find sources for this article on the “caregiver resource” page at www.joelaguardia.com.
Becoming a caregiver is one of the most difficult transitions in a person’s life. It can happen overnight or over a long period of time. Either way, many people are simply [...]
Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: February 25, 2009
A prayer for Ash Wednesday by Henri Nouwen:
Faithful God, trusting in You,
we begin
the forty days of conversion and penance.
Give us the strength for Christian discipline,
that we may renounce evil
and be decisive in doing good.
We ask this through Jesus Christ.
AMEN
Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: October 15, 2008
I just read a wonderful article in Spiritual Life (www.spiritual-life.org) by Dr. Deborah Hanus in which she relates the life of Theresa of Lisieux to caregiving.* Her basic premise–based on Theresa’s writings–is that a caregiver’s ability to meditate on the Suffering Servant allows Christ to enter into the life of a caregiver in a profound [...]
Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: September 30, 2008
By Joe LaGuardia
In Eugene Peterson’s version of the Bible, The Message, he writes in Proverbs that God doesn’t care too much for pretense. Pretense is a sort of pretending–a deceptive way of being something you’re not. Yet, when our souls have tinkered out or our spiritual life wanes, we approach God with enough pretense to [...]
Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: March 20, 2008
Caregivers are an industrious people. They are doers: We care for our loved ones, make sure household chores are done, do the budget, pay the bills, grocery shop, and have just enough of energy to bath our care receiver at the end of the day. Some of us even manage to do for our care [...]
