Posted by: caregiverspirituality on: July 27, 2009
When all is said and done, I know one thing for sure: Caregivers are busy. Caregivers care for others and also attend to children, households, and jobs. They face conflicting burdens: guilt and blessing, unrealistic expectations and failure, joy and depression. With all these ingredients mixing in a giant pot, a caregiver’s well-being begins to [...]
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: June 25, 2009
The following article is part of a four-part series that is due to run in the Rockdale Citizen religion section.
By Joe LaGuardia
Ever since its inception, Trinity Baptist Church has been a congregation that reaches out to caregivers in the community. We have had all kinds of caregivers—from professional caregivers who work in medical fields [...]
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 [...]
