How will we know when it’s time to move this beloved woman to full-time nursing care?
When you
can’t be with her 24/7, and you can’t be sure she won’t fall or turn right and go out the door instead
of left and back to bed.
How
can we expect her neighbors to do what we can’t?
You
cannot.
How
can we trust strangers to treat her with dignity?
Show
up. Make friends. Pay attention. Speak up.
How
will we recognize the right place?
What
brings you peace?
How
will we know what to say to her?
Ask
Me for the right words.
How
do I quiet the voice in my head? “I should do more. Someday, this could
be me.”
Be
still and Know that I Am God.
Open
my ears, Lord, teach me to listen.
Trust
Me.
Because
of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never
fail.
23 They are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness. 24 I say to myself,
“The Lord is my portion; therefore
I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3: 22-24